Homework Help: Math

Posted by Marc-Anthony Cienfuegos on Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:21pm.

Trying to find how many jelly beans that can be in the jar?

Exactly half were red and exactly one-third were blue, which of the following is not a reasonable number of jelly beans that can be in the jar? Is it 24, 50, 60 or 90?

Math - Ms. Sue, Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:29pm
Which of those numbers cannot be divided evenly by 2 and 3?
Math - Damon, Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:29pm
x in jar
(1/2) x = red
(1/3 )x = blue

total must be divisible by 2 and by 3, or by 6 in other words

50 is not

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