Question

To make a shade of lavender paint jon mixes 4 ounces of red tint and 28 ounces of blue tint into one gallon of white paint. if 20 gallons of white paint and 80 ounces of red tint are used, how much blue tint should be added? write a rule that you can use to find the amounted of blue tint needed?

Answer 1

You can write this as a ratio to find the answer, but you first need to convert the gallon of white paint into ounces, which is 160 ounces. The ratio, red to blue to white, is 4:28:160, which you can simplify by dividing by 4 into 1:7:40. If 80 ounces of red tint are used, you need to multiply each value in the ratio by 80, which gives you 80:560:3200. This shows that you need 560 ounces of blue tint, which can also be written as 3.5 gallons. I hope this helps!