Question

Hayden mixed 6 cups of blue paint with 8 cups of yellow paint to make green paint. To represent the relationship between the number of cups of blue paint, b, and the number of cups of yellow paint, y, needed to make the same shade of green paint, Hayden wrote the equation b= y what number should be between y and the equal sign.

show how you solved the problem?

Answer 1

The number should be -2. This is because you get the amount of blue paint by subtracting 2 to the number of yellow paint.

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