Acertain shade of blue is made by mixing 1.5 quarts of blue paint with 5 quarts of white paint. if you need a total of 16.25 gallons of this shade of blue paint, how much of each color should you mix

Let be the amount (in quarts) of blue paint used in the mix, and the amount of white paint. For the desired shade, there are 1.5 qt of blue paint for every 5 qt of white, so that .

1 gallon = 4 quarts, so 16.25 gal = 65 qt. We want this amount of the final mixed paint, so that .

Subsituting into this equation gives us

so we need to use 50 qt of blue paint and 15 qt of white paint (since 65 - 50 = 15).

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