SOLUTION: You are employed at a paint store. A customer would like a particular shade of green paint. To obtain this shade, you must mix 3 ounces of green dye per quart of white paint. How m

Question 907642: You are employed at a paint store. A customer would like a particular shade of green paint. To obtain this shade, you must mix 3 ounces of green dye per quart of white paint. How much green dye will you need to make 8 gallons?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You must really mean FLUID ounces, because the other measures are quarts and gallons which are volume measures. The formula specifies 3 fluid ounces of the green dye to 32 fluid ounces of white paint. This ratio is based on parts of volume.

The paint size to make is 8 gallons.
1 gallon = 128 fluid ounces.
1 gallon = 4 quarts.

Green Dye: fluid ounces
White Paint: fluid ounces

That amount of green dye is nearly but slightly less than quarts.
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