Jaime mixes purple paint. She uses three pints of blue paint for every four

pints of red paint. Jaime wants to mix more paint exactly the same color. She
has 14 pints of red paint. How much blue paint does she need?

1 answer

Let n = pints of blue paint needed

Use ratio and proportion.
3 blue : 4 red = n : 14 red
Rewriting,
3/4 = n/14
n = (3/4) * 14
n = 42/4
n = 21/2 pints of blue paint