[email protected] wrote:A painter wishes to paint a house turquoise. To make the color, he selects an eggshell primer made up of 70% pure-white color, and combines it with a blue base coat in order to create a turquoise color made up of 75% pure-white. How many quarts from the blue base coat should be mixed to make enough turquoise to paint the house?
1.It will take 300 quarts of paint to cover the house.
2.The blue base-coat is made up of 90% pure-white color.
[spoiler]Ans-C
[/spoiler]
We are to answer:
How many quarts from the blue base coat should be mixed to make enough turquoise to paint the house?
We know that the eggshell primer is made up of 70% pure-white color and the blue base coat is combined in order to create a turquoise color made up of 75% pure-white. We further know that these two are the only ingredients for the turquoise.
In order to answer the DS from here,
we need to know:
"¢ How many quart of paint is required to paint the house turquoise?
"¢ In what proportion the two ingredients are mixed?
"¢ What is the concentration of pure-white color in the blue base coat?
Over to statements
(1) It will take 300 quarts of paint to cover the house. This is one of our three basic needs,
insufficient.
(2) The blue base-coat is made up of 90% pure-white color. This is one of our three basic needs,
insufficient.
When taken together, we can first apply
the alligation rule in (2) to find the ratio in the quantities in which the two ingredients should be mixed, and next, with the help of (1), solve for the answer.
[spoiler]
Hence C[/spoiler]
The mind is everything. What you think you become. -Lord Buddha
Sanjeev K Saxena
Quantitative Instructor
The Princeton Review - Manya Abroad
Lucknow-226001
www.manyagroup.com
