Question

A bucket of green paint 6 teaspoons of blue in it and 8 teaspoons of yellow paint to make a shade of green paint using 18 teaspoons of blue paint how many teaspoons of yellow

Answer 1

24 teaspoons of yellow

Explanation:

The ratio of blue to yellow is 6 to 8.

`(6)/(8) = (18)/(y)`

We see that y = 24 since 18 = 3 × 6 and

24 = 3 × 8.