Question

The custom shade or purple paint is made by mixing 5 parts blue paint with 3 parts red paint. The employees in the paint department of a home improvement store use this table to determine the amounts of blue and red paint needed to create this color for their customers. How much red paint is needed to make 28 pints of the custom shade of purple paint?
PLEASE HELP ME !

Answer 1

Since we use 5 parts blue and 3 parts red, the total sections is 8.

28/8 = 3.5

We want to find the red which is 3 parts.

3.5 * 3 = 10.5.

Your answer should be 10.5 pints of red. Hope this helps!