Question

An artist mixes yellow and blue paint to make the perfect shade of green. She uses 2 ounces of blue paint for every 7 ounces of yellow paint. Question: If the mixing container only holds 40 ounces of paint, then what is the most green paint the artist can make, and what recipe should she use?

Answer 1

Answer: 36 ounce. Of green paint.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given data:

Amount of blue paint = 2 ounce

Amount of yellow paint = 7 ounce.

Paint the mixing container can hold = 40 ounce.

Solution:

Most green paints she can make. This is a ratio question

Yellow green

7 = 2

14 =. 4

21 =. 6

28 = 8 *

35 = 10

The most green paint she can make would be 28 ounce of yellow + 8 ounce of blue which would give us 36ounce of green paint. Since the container can only hold 40 ounce.