Shawn bought $45.00 worth of pencils from Office Max. If the sales tax is 4%, what was the amount of tax she had to pay?
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Answer:
Brandon is correct.
Step-by-step explanation:
Initially, there id 4 pints of green paint in the bucket.
As the green paint is made from equal amounts of yellow paint and blue paint, so, the initial amount of yellow and blue paint in the bucket is 2 pint each.
Let x pints of yellow paint to be added to the bucket to make the desired shade.
Total amount of the paint in the bucket, after addition of pints of yellow color become
pint, in which the ampunt of yellow color is
pints.
As, the ampunt of yellow color is 80% of the total amount of the mixture, so
So, 6 pints of yellow paint to be added to the bucket to make the desired shade.
Hence, Brandon is correct.