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If you have two buckets, one with red paint and the other with blue paint, and you take one cup from the blue bucket and pour it into the red bucket. Then you take one cup from the red bucket and pour it into the blue bucket. Which bucket has the highest ratio between red and blue? Prove it mathematically.

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they are the same :p

btw its POUR not POOR, we can tell your not a genius :lol1:
 
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they are the same :p

btw its POUR not POOR, we can tell your not a genius :lol1:
no they are not the same because when you take the second cup it is already coming from a diluted mixture, The red bucket has a higher ration of red to blue then the blue bucket having blue to red.


I am not going to type up an expression for this do your own homework
 

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don't you need to know the amount in bucket (how many cups are in one bucket??)
if its a swiming pool size bucket, 55 gallon bucket, a two cup size bucket :shrug:
 

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no they are not the same because when you take the second cup it is already coming from a diluted mixture, The red bucket has a higher ration of red to blue then the blue bucket having blue to red.


I am not going to type up an expression for this do your own homework

But how much of the blue makes it back into the blue bucket along with the red? Or in any case does any of it make it back?

OR would it be the same with Purple being the new product in both buckets. :shrug:
 

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^^^ no one cup is one cup

cup being not the kind you drink out of but the measuring device
 

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But how much of the blue makes it back into the blue bucket along with the red? Or in any case does any of it make it back?

OR would it be the same with Purple being the new product in both buckets. :shrug:
It's irrelevant, when adding blue to red the blue is pure but when adding red to blue it's not so therefore the red bucket has a bigger ratio.
 

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