Question

In the recipe for maroon paint that instructs to mix 5 ml of red paint with 3 ml of blue paint:

a) What amount does each snap cube represent?
b) How many milliliters of maroon paint will there be?
c) If each cube represents 2 ml, how much of each color paint is there?
Red: _______ ml
Blue: _______ ml
Maroon: _______ ml
d) If each cube represents 5 ml, how much of each color paint is there?
Red: _______ ml
Blue: _______ ml
Maroon: _______ ml
e) If you need 80 ml of maroon paint, how much red and blue paint would you mix?
Red: _______ ml
Blue: _______ ml
Maroon: 80 ml
f) If the original recipe is for one batch of maroon paint, how many batches are in 80 ml of maroon paint?

Answer 1

Each snap cube represents 2 ml. There are 2.5 snap cubes of red paint and 1.5 snap cubes of blue paint. The total amount of maroon paint will be 8 ml.

Step-by-step explanation:

a) Each snap cube represents 2 ml, so 5 ml of red paint would be represented by 2.5 snap cubes (5 / 2 = 2.5) and 3 ml of blue paint would be represented by 1.5 snap cubes (3 / 2 = 1.5).

b) To find the total amount of maroon paint, we add the amounts of red and blue paint. Since each snap cube represents 2 ml, we have 2.5 snap cubes of red paint + 1.5 snap cubes of blue paint = 4 snap cubes. Therefore, there will be 8 ml of maroon paint (4 x 2 = 8).

c) If each cube represents 2 ml, then there would be 5 ml of red paint (2.5 x 2 = 5) and 3 ml of blue paint (1.5 x 2 = 3).

d) If each cube represents 5 ml, then there would be 12.5 ml of red paint (2.5 x 5 = 12.5) and 7.5 ml of blue paint (1.5 x 5 = 7.5).

e) If we need 80 ml of maroon paint, we can use the ratio of 8 ml of maroon paint to 4 snap cubes to find how many snap cubes are needed for 80 ml. The calculation would be: 80 ml / 8 ml x 4 snap cubes = 40 snap cubes. Since each snap cube represents 2 ml, we would need 40 snap cubes x 2 ml = 80 ml of red and blue paint each.

f) If the original recipe is for one batch of maroon paint, and we have 80 ml of maroon paint, there would be 80 ml / 8 ml = 10 batches of maroon paint.