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* You are holding a yellow flask and a read flask. The yellow flask contains more than 1 cup of yellow paint, and the red flask contains an equal amount of red paint. You pour 1 cup of the red paint in the red flask into the yellow flask and mix thoroughly. You then pour 1 cup of the paint mixture in the yellow flask into the read flask and mix thoroughly.
a. Without doing any calculation, which do you think will be greater, the percentage of yellow paint in the red flask or the percentage of red paint in the yellow flask? Explain your reasoning.
b. Now use calculations to figure out the answer to the problem in part (a).
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