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

we know the blue and white paints are on a 1.5 : 5 ratio, thus, if we have a total of 16.25 gallons of paint to be split along that ratio, we can simply divide 16.25 by (1.5+5) and distribute accordingly.

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