SOLUTION: The Green Goober, a wildly unpopular superhero, mixes 333 liters of yellow paint with 5 liters of blue paint to make 8 liters of special green paint for his costume. Write an equa

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Question 1139942: The Green Goober, a wildly unpopular superhero, mixes 333 liters of yellow paint with 5 liters of blue paint to make 8 liters of special green paint for his costume.
Write an equation that relates y, the amount of yellow paint in liters, and b, the amount of blue paint in liters, needed to make the Green Goober's special green paint.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!



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Write an equation that relates y, the amount of yellow paint in liters, and b, the amount of blue paint in liters, needed to make the Green Goober's special green paint.
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With just those numbers, and assuming the result is to be "8 liters of special green paint", then y+b=8.

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