Question

Orange paint is made using 2 parts of red paint mixed with 3 parts of yellow paint. Aleshia has 450ml of red paint and 700 ml of yellow paint.. What the maximum volume of orange paint she can make?

Answer 1

Aleshia can make a maximum volume of 675 ml of orange paint.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the maximum volume of orange paint Aleshia can make, we need to determine how much red and yellow paint she can mix together in the ratio of 2 parts red to 3 parts yellow.

Since Aleshia has 450 ml of red paint and 700 ml of yellow paint, we will first calculate how much orange paint can be made from 450 ml of red paint.

Using the ratio, 2 parts red to 3 parts yellow, we can set up a proportion and solve for the unknown volume of orange paint.

(2 parts red)/(3 parts yellow) = (450 ml red)/(x ml orange)

Cross multiplying, we get 2x = 3 * 450, which simplifies to 2x = 1350. Dividing both sides by 2, we find x = 675.

Therefore, Aleshia can make a maximum volume of 675 ml of orange paint.