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Brock and his brothers bought their mom a 3 pound box of candy. Each candy was wrapped in colored foil and weighed 2 ounces.
There were at least 3 wrappers of each color.
There were twice as many blue wrappers as green wrappers.
The number of gold wrappers equaled the number of silver wrappers.
There was one more candy wrapped in green than in silver.
The total number of gold and silver wrappers was equal to the number of red wrappers.
How many candies were wrapped in each color?
Remember, there are 16 ounces to a pound
There were at least 3 wrappers of each color.
There were twice as many blue wrappers as green wrappers.
The number of gold wrappers equaled the number of silver wrappers.
There was one more candy wrapped in green than in silver.
The total number of gold and silver wrappers was equal to the number of red wrappers.
How many candies were wrapped in each color?
Remember, there are 16 ounces to a pound
Hint
Work with the first information to find the total number of candies, and then guess and check or use algebra.Answer
Color NumberSilver 3
Gold 3
Red 6
Blue 8
Green 4
Total 24
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I liked it Easy if you know how to use algebra.
yay!!! some1 liked my teaser. im so happy. this is my first teaser so dont be hard on me
I'm not good at math
im good at math, i got an A in algebra but i read this at home and i my brain is somewhat turned off
slipknot, that must mean... the is dumb.
well thanks for the kind comment slip
I liked this one (I love chocolate!) but thought the title the best part
Very easy, no algebra needed. As I read the teaser I tallied the minimum values in my head so I would have the ratios at the end to solve the problem. Turned out the solution was the minimums.
This is a linear programming problem which can be solved with SCIP. The scip model that I used can be found at https://gist.github.com/saska-gist/
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