To paint a sunset, you make a shade of orange paint using 5
5
drops of red paint for every 8
8
drops of yellow paint. if you use 15
15
drops of red paint, how many drops of yellow paint would you need?

24 drops

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : To paint a sunset, we make a shade of orange paint using 5 drops of red paint for every 8 drops of yellow paint.

⇒ The drops of red paint is proportional to the drops of yellow paint to paint a sunset.

If we use 15 drops of red paint therefore by direct proportion we get,

, where x is the number of drops of yellow paint.

Thus  we need 24 drops of yellow paint.

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the simplified form is

step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b