Question

To paint a sunset Tran and makes a shade of orange paint using five drops of red paint for every eight drops of yellow paint if tranny uses 15 drops of red paint how many drops of yellow paint would you need

Answer 1

24 drops of yellow paint

Explanation:

We have a ratio of red paint to yellow paint

red:yellow

5: 8

We need red to be 15 drops, so we multiply by 3

What we do to one side we do to the other

red:yellow

5*3 8*3

15 : 24

We need 24 drops of yellow paint