Answer: we need 3 cups of white paint and 5 of yellow paint if we want to make 1 batch.
Step-by-step explanation:
I suppose that each one of these squares represents one cup of the given color.
(the white squares represent the cups of white paint and the yellow squares represent the number of cups of yellow paint)
We know that for 3 batches of the paint, we need:
9 cups of white paint.
15 cups of yellow paint.
Now, if we only want to do one batch, then we should use one-third of these numbers of cups. (Because with that we make 3 batches, and one-third of 3 batches is one batch)
Originally, we use 9 cups of white paint, then for one batch we need one-third of 9 cups, this is:
9/3 = 3
Then we should use 3 cups of white paint.
And for the yellow paint, we originally use 15 cups, one-third of 15 is:
15/3 = 5
Then we should use 5 cups of yellow paint.
We can conclude that we need 3 cups of white paint and 5 cups of yellow paint if we want to make 1 batch.
This would be represented with 3 white squares and 5 yellow squares.
