A jar contains 1,200 M& M's and everyday your family eats 1/5th of the candies. After how many days will there be 314 M& M's in the jar?

How do you set up the equation also?

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Donavan Potts

26 August, 21:00

A jar contains 1,200 M& M's and everyday your family eats 1/5th of the candies. After how many days will there be 314 M& M's in the jar?

How do you set up the equation also?

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Colby Tanner · Answer 1

The equation is 314 = 1,200 - 240x

1,200 is the number of M&M's it starts with

The problem said the family eats 1/5th of the candy every day

1/5 of 1,200 is 240

It is a - 240 because the amount of m&m's is getting fewer each day

The x stands for the number of days

Sorry but I'm not sure if I could answer your problem exactly

The answer is 3.69 days

Because there isn't an exact day that there would exactly 314 M&M's left

A jar contains 1,200 M& M's and everyday your family eats 1/5th of the candies. After how many days will there be 314 M& M's in the jar?How do you set up the equation also?

A jar contains 1,200 M& M's and everyday your family eats 1/5th of the candies. After how many days will there be 314 M& M's in the jar?

How do you set up the equation also?