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  • 01-12-2015
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Paint is red : blue in a ratio of 2 : 4. If 5 litres of red is used how much blue is used

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sciencegeek88 sciencegeek88
  • 01-12-2015

so since the ratio of red paint to blue paint is 2:4 and you can simplify 2:4 into 1:2 and because 5 liters of paint is used you would have to multiply the 2 from the simplified ratio by 5 so you could get the answer  2*5 and that equals 10
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