For a scavenger hunt, Jim's mom distributed a bag of 1,190 jelly beans evenly into 34 plastic containers and hid them around the yard. If, after the hunt, Jim has a total of 420 jelly beans, then how many of the plastic containers did he find?

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johnweldon1993 · Answer

okay...well...1190 jelly beans / 34 containers

means 35 jelly beans per container...

he has 420 jelly beans

420 jelly beans / 35 jelly beans per container

he found 12 containers

keyonsay · Answer

thank you

johnweldon1993 · Answer

do you understand why i did all those steps?

keyonsay · Answer

no can you explain why

anonymous · Answer

its 12 containers

420        ?
---- = ----
1190     34

anonymous · Answer

if there was 34 containers total. how many did he find? thats wat there mostly asking

johnweldon1993 · Answer

sure..ill copy and paste here

okay...well...

first we want to find out how many jelly beans are in each of the containers....


1190 jelly beans are divided up into 34 containers means 1190/34 = 35

so we know how many jelly beans are in each container.....now we want to know how many containers he has found


if there's 35 jelly beans per container... and he has 420 jelly beans

he has some number of containers...that number of containers have a total of 420 jelly beans so

420 jelly beans / 35 jelly beans per container

means he found 12 containers

check it.......  in 12 containers....at 35 jelly beans per container....so 12 * 35 is 420

any better?

keyonsay · Answer

ok now i understand.  Thank you sooo much!

johnweldon1993 · Answer

not a problem :) glad to help