<span>Work out the Mean (the simple average of the numbers)Then for each number: subtract the Mean and square the result.Then work out the mean of those squared differences.<span>Take the square root of that and we are done!</span></span>
The 4 litres of red has to be 2 parts of the mixture, so each part will be 2 litres. Therefore 3 parts of cream will be 6 litres and the one part of blue will be 2 litres.