Acertain color paint should have a mix of blue and green in a ratio of 5: 2. if a house painter needs to use 8 gallons of green paint, how many gallons of blue paint should he mix with it in order to obtain the right color?

20

Step-by-step explanation:

If green is 8 and the ratio is 5:2, then you divide 8 by 2 to get 4, and then times 4 by 5 to get 20

answer

d. 10

explanation

the distance from point y to wx is the height of the triangle.

using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

this implies that,

take positive square root of both sides to get,

this implies that,

ratio is 2 : 9

the answer is three

13.5 : 3