Question

Perfect Purple Paint Problem: Perfect Purple paint is made by mixing red and blue paint in a 5 to 3ratio. How much red paint and how much blue paint do you need to make 65 liters of Perfect Purple paint? Explain how to solve the Perfect Purple Paint Problem in two distinctly different ways, each of which uses either a multiple-batches or a variable-parts perspective. For at least one of your ways, reason about multiplication and division with quantities.

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