Question

Saul makes green paint by mixing blue paint and yellow paint.

For every 3
gallons of blue paint, they use 1
gallon of yellow paint.
the correct number of each type of paint into the box that would make 16
gallons of paint the same shade of green as Saul's.

Answer 1

12 gallons of blue paint

4 gallons of yellow paint

Explanation:

since we take 3 gallons of blue paint for every 1 gallon of yellow paint, we use 4 gallons of paint every time. we also have a ratio 3 : 1.

using 16 means we use this combination 16/4=4 times.

so, we multiply the ratio by 4:

3×4 = 12 gallons of blue paint

1×4 = 4 gallons of yellow paint