Question

Sofia mixes 7 cups of blue paint and 1 cup of red paint. Sofia red paint proportion (out of total) as fraction =

Answer 1

Answer: 1/8

Explanation:

She uses 8 cups of paint and one of those 8 cups is red so it would be 1 red cup out of 8 cups or 1/8

Answer 2

Sofia has a total of 7 cups + 1 cup = 8 cups of paint.

The proportion of red paint to the total amount of paint is 1 cup / 8 cups = 1/8.

So the fraction representing the proportion of red paint out of the total amount of paint is 1/8.