Question

To decorate a cake, you make a shade of green icing using 3 drops of yellow food coloring for every 4 drops of blue. If you use 12 drops of yellow food coloring, how many drops of blue food coloring would you need?

Answer 1

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To decorate a cake, you make a shade of green icing using 3 drops of yellow food coloring for every 4 drops of blue. If you use 12 drops of yellow food coloring, how many drops of blue food coloring would you need?

16.

Answer 2

For the answer to the question above, the answer is 16.
You would divide 12 by 3 since that's the number of red dots per blue. Then multiply by four and there's the answer!

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