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Disha wants to paint her room a unique brown. For that she uses a certain violet paint which contains 30% blue pigment and 70% red pigment by weight. She mixes that violet paint with a certain green paint which contains 50% blue pigment and 50% yellow pigment. When these paints are mixed to produce the brown paint which she uses, it contains 40% blue pigment. If the brown paint weighs 10 grams, then the red pigment contributes how many grams of that weight?

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2.8 gms

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3.5 gms

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4 gms

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5.3 gms

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Solution

The correct option is B

3.5 gms


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Considering only the blue pigment in all the paints


Thus, 5gms of each paint is used .Weight of red paint =710×5=3.5 gms.Option (b)



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