Mark wants to continue using whole liters of paint and thinks he can create a mixture of green paint the is 38 liters. Evaluate Mark's thinking using mathematical reasoning. The ratio from blue to yellow paint is 2:3
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It's not possible to create 38 liters of green paint with whole liters of blue and yellow paint.

Explanation:

The ratio of blue to yellow is 2:3. We have 2 parts blue and 3 parts yellow.

Multiply both parts by x to get 2x:3x

We have 2x parts of blue paint, and 3x parts of yellow paint.

x is some positive whole number.

In total, we have 2x+3x = 5x liters of paint. Set this equal to 38 and solve for x to get

5x = 38

x = 38/5

x = 7.6

We don't get a whole number, which contradicts how we set up x earlier. This must mean that Mark must use a fractional liters, instead of whole liters.

Here's another way to look at it:

Lets say he uses 2 liters of blue and 3 liters of yellow. This mixes to 2+3 = 5 liters of green.

Now let's say he uses 4 liters of blue and 6 of yellow. I multiplied both parts by 2. This mixes to 4+6 = 10 liters of green.

We continue this process to get the following

As you can see, we don't land on 38 liters of green. We can get to 35 liters or 40 liters, but not 38. Each of the amounts of green are a multiple of 5.

This is confirmation that Mark will have to use some fractional amount of liters of blue and yellow paint.

answer: 88

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