SOLUTION: The Blakes went to an ice cream place where a small cone costs $1.85, a medium cone costs $2.35, a large cone costs $2.75. There are 5 people in the Blake family and each person or
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Question 677866: The Blakes went to an ice cream place where a small cone costs $1.85, a medium cone costs $2.35, a large cone costs $2.75. There are 5 people in the Blake family and each person ordered one cone. If they spent a total of $11.65, how many medium cones did they buy? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! they could not have all ordered large cones
since that adds up to
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There can't be 4 large cones since that adds
up to and that would only
leave 65 cents for the 5th cone
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Can there be 3 large cones and 2 mediums? No, that's too much
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Can there be 3 large, 1 medium and 1 small? Still too much
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Can there be 3 large and 2 small? Too much
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That means there can be at most 2 large cones
Can there be 2 large and 3 mediums? Too much
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Can there be 2 large and 3 small? Too low
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Can there be 2 large, 2 small and 1 medium? Too small
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Can there be 2 large, 2 medium, and 1 small? Too much
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It looks like there can only be 1 large
Can there be 1 large and 4 mediums? Too much
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Can there be 1 large, 3 medium, 1 small?
They bought 3 medium cones
