How many peanut m&ms can you fit in a gallon glass jar

About 2,892 peanut M&M's fit inside a gallon glass jar.

The following calculation can be done to estimate the number of chocolates that fit inside:

  1. We know that the capacity of 1 gallon jar is 3785.41178 cubic centimeters.

  2. Determine the volume of a single M&M. In case you’re curious, the volume of a single peanut M&M is approximately 0.83776cm³.

  3. Calculate the percentage of the total volume the chocolates take up in the jar. Because of their unique shape, M&M's occupy 64% of the container.

  4. Divide your estimate for the size of a single M&M into 64% of the volume of the jar.

  5. So that would be:

  6. 64% of 3785.41178 cm³ = 2422.6635392 cm³

  7. 2422.6635392 cm³ / 0.83776cm³ = 2891.83482047

One of the interesting and weird facts Amazon put forth in their post-holiday wrap-up press release: If you had a single plain M&M for each Eminem album purchased on the Amazon MP3 Store over the holidays, you’d have nearly 100 lbs. of candy-coated chocolate. Learn more of Amazon’s odd facts at Marketing Pilgrim.

Updated on Sunday, February 02 2014 at 01:07AM EST
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