Question

sydney filled 8 boxes with soup cans and jelly jars. each box had 2 soup cans and j jelly jars. she used a total of 56 containers of food. what does your answer of 5 mean in this situation? j = 5 there are 5 containers of food in each box. there are 5 jelly jars in each box. sydney has 5 total jelly jars.

Explanation:

In the problem, \(j\) represents the number of jelly jars in each box. Since \(j = 5\), it means for each of the 8 boxes, the number of jelly jars is 5. The total number of containers per box is \(j + 2\) (soup cans + jelly jars). The first option is wrong because \(j+2=5 + 2=7\) containers per box. The third option is wrong because the total number of jelly jars is \(8\times j=8\times5 = 40\).

Answer:

There are 5 jelly jars in each box.