Q: Elena makes her favorite shade of purple paint by mixing 3 cups of blue paint, 1 1/2 cups of red paint, and 1/2 of a cup of white paint. Elena has 2/3 of a cup of white paint. A: Assuming she has enough red paint and blue paint, how much purple paint can Elena make?
B: How much blue paint and red paint will Elena need to use with the 2/3 of a cup of white paint?

A: 3 1/2 cups of purple paint

Step-by-step explanation:

A: add red and blue paint

B:idk

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )