Hamza bought 8 gallons of brown paint to paint his kitchen and dining room. Unfortunately, when Hamza started

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painting, he thought the paint was too dark for his house, so he wanted to make it lighter. The store manager would
not let Hamza return the paint but did inform him that if he used
1
4 of a gallon of white paint mixed with 2 gallons of
brown paint, he would get the shade of brown he desired. If Hamza decided to take this approach, how many
gallons of white paint would Hamza have to buy to lighten the 8 gallons

Answer 1

Im pretty sure its like 1 gallon because when there is 1/4 of white for every 2 brown (omg thats really racist) and you have 8 brown that would be 4 times the 2 white need so u would like times 1/4 by 4 which would be 1/4 x 4/1
the would get a fraction of 4/4 which is 1 so for 8 gallons of brown you'll need 1 gallon of white, if that isn't right im just dumb smh

Answer 2

it's right, but very convoluted. Clearly the topic being taiught for this problem is proportions. So, set up a proportion
x/8 = (1/4) / 2
x/8 = 1/8
x = 1