Question

A shade of green paint is made by mixing blue paint and yellow paint in the ratio of 4 to 3. How many pints of blue paint and yellow
paint are needed to make 21 pints of the green paint?

Answer 1

Answer:

$Blue = 12$

$Yellow = 9$

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

$Blue : Yellow = 4 : 3$

Required

Determine the number of pints of each to make 21 of green paints

First, calculate the total ratio.

$Total = 4 + 3$

$Total = 7$

The blue and the yellow pint can be represented individually as:

$Blue = \frac{4}{7} * Green$

$Yellow = \frac{3}{7} * Green$

Number of blue paint calculated last week is:

$Blue = \frac{4}{7} * 21$

$Blue = {4} * 3$

$Blue = 12$

$Yellow = \frac{3}{7} * Green$

$Yellow = \frac{3}{7} * 21$

$Yellow = {3} * 3$

$Yellow = 9$