Question

Question 84 (ii)

Campus and Welfare Committee of school is planning to develop a blue shade for painting the entire school building. For this purpose, various shades are tried by mixing containers of blue paint and white paint. In each of the following mixtures, decide which is a lighter shade of blue and also find the lightest blue shade among all of them.

Answer 1

In mixture C
The number of blue containers = 3
The number fo white containers = 3
$\therefore$ Ratio of blue and white $=\frac{3}{3}=1$

In mixture D
The number of blue containers = 2
The number of white containers = 5
$\therefore$ Ratio of blue and white$=\frac{2}{5}=0.4$