A purple paint is made by mixing 15oz of of red paint,and 5oz of boue paint. What percent of the paint is blue paint.

Mathematics

1 answer:

ZanzabumX [31]3 years ago

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Answer: 25%

Step-by-step explanation:

$\dfrac{\text{blue paint}}{\text{total paint}}=\dfrac{5}{5 + 15}\quad =\dfrac{5}{20}\bigg(\dfrac{5}{5}\bigg)\quad =\dfrac{25}{100}\quad =\large\boxed{25\%}$

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