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Disha wants to paint her room brown. For that she uses a certain violet paint which contains 30%  blue pigment and 70%   red pigment by weight. She mixes that violet paint with a certain green paint which contains 50%   blue pigment and 50%   yellow pigment. When these paints are mixed to produce the brown paint which she uses, it contains 40%   blue pigment. If the brown paint weighs 10 grams, then the red pigment contributes how many grams of that weight?


Options:
A .   2.8 gms
B .   3.5 gms
C .   4gms
D .   5.3 gms                   
Answer: Option B
:
B
Use alligation,
Disha Wants To Paint Her Room Brown. For That She Uses A Cer...

Considering only the blue pigment in all the paints


 


Thus, 5 gms of each paint is used. Weight of red paint = 710×5 =3.5 gms. Option (b)


 



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