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Mrs. Pascal has a candy jar that contains 5 Jolly Ranchers and 13 jawbreakers. Solve each of the following problems and explain your thinking. Suppose that you have a candy jar with the same ratio of Jolly
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Mrs. Pascal has a candy jar that contains 5 Jolly Ranchers and 13 jawbreakers. Solve each of the following problems and explain your thinking. Suppose that you have a candy jar with the same ratio of Jolly Ranchers to jawbreakers as in the previous problem, but it contains 720 candies. How many of each kind of candy would you have?

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The ratio is 5:13 and the total number of candy is 18. If the total amount of candy increased by 40x then both candy values would increase by 40x. There are 200 Jolly ranchers and 520 jawbreakers.

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