When colors are mixed a new color, a shade, is created. Rossella decides to mix blue and white paint to create a new shade of blue. She mixes: 3 quarts of blue paint 5 quarts of white paint This mixture produces a new shade of blue. Christina likes Rosella's new shade of blue. She wants to make the same shade of blue using the same ratios of blue and white paint that Rosella uses. But she needs to make a different amount of paint. Which mixture below would give Christina the same shade of blue as Rosella's?

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When colors are mixed a new color, a shade, is created. Rossella decides to mix blue and white paint to create a new shade of blue. She mixes:
  • 3 quarts of blue paint
  • 5 quarts of white paint
This mixture produces a new shade of blue. Christina likes Rosella's new shade of blue. She wants to make the same shade of blue using the same ratios of blue and white paint that Rosella uses. But she needs to make a different amount of paint. Which mixture below would give Christina the same shade of blue as Rosella's?
2 quarts blue, 6 quarts white
4 quarts blue, 6 quarts white
6 quarts blue, 10 quarts white
6 quarts blue, 8 quarts white
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