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Disha wants to paint her room a unique 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 .   4 gms
D .   5.3 gms
Answer: Option B
:
B

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Considering only the blue pigment in all the paints
Disha Wants To Paint Her Room A Unique Brown. For That She U...
Thus, 5gms of each paint is used .Weight of red paint =710×5=3.5 gms.Option (b)



 



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