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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by house paint And how many

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fifty shades of grey jokes do you think we thought

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of putting in here but we couldn't because we're g

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rated site all right marcus is painting his house with

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a custom paint color To create the color Marcus combines

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one part white paint with two parts purple paint and

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six parts blue paint If marcus has five gallons of

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each of these three colors then how many gallons of

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his custom color can you create without buying any more

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paint And here your potential answers Okay well what is

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this question asking Well our friend marcus wants to make

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his house all nice and pretty but apparently doesn't trust

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the good people at home depot to do is mix

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and forum so he's winging it he's using one part

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white paint two parts purple and six parts blue And

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we need to know how many gallons he can create

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his custom color if he has five gallons of each

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All right Well the important thing recognizes that marx is

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going to run out of blue way before he runs

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out of either of the other two colors Alright so

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his custom paint has nine total parts and six of

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those air blue Then we can set up a proportion

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with x as the total amount of paint marcus can

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mix using five gallons of the blue We can put

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the total over blue which is nine over six which

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reduces tow three over to And we can set that

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proportion equal Toe acts The total amount of paint over

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Five Number of gallons of blue paint Marcus has got

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it Five gallons Blute now it's Just a matter of

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cross Multiply three times Five equals Two x thanks Alright

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well three times five fifteen So fifteen equal to x

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by both sides by two and exit polls Seven point

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five which is how many gallons of the custom color

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marcus can make before he goes well louis all right

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option b and sorry we're gonna have to run We've

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got to stop markets from trying to die His own 00:01:56.948 --> [endTime] hair just can't get enough So he's winging it

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