Jaime mixes purple paint. She uses six pints of blue paint for every five pints

Question

of red paint. Jaime wants to mix more paint exactly the same color. She has 21

pints of blue paint. How much red paint does she need?

Answer 1

6/5 = 21/x

Cross multiply and solve for x.

Answer 2

two ships collided at sea. One was carrying red dye, and the other was loaded with blue dye.

All the sailors were marooned...

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