Question

An artist painted a group of 40 pictures. For every 8 picturesusing light colors, the artist painted 2 using dark colors. Howmany pictures were painted with light colors?

Answer 1

32 pictures were painted with light colors

Here, we are interested in calculating the number of pictures that were painted with light colours

From the question, we can see that the ratio of pictures painted with light colours to that painted with dark colours is;

8 : 2

In the simplest form, this is the ratio 4 to 1

So, we can divide the total number of 40 pictures based on this ratio

We add up the ratios which is total 5

Then we place the number representing the number of light colours on it and multiply the fraction by 40

We have this as;

`(4)/(5)\text{ }*\text{ 40 = 32}`