Acolor called “passion purple”is made by mixing 5 oz of red paint and 9 oz of blue paint. what percent of passion purple is blue paint? ( round to the nearest percent.)

First find the total amount of paint because that is what you are getting the percentage from.

Total paint = 5 + 8 = 14

Then write the blue paint as a fraction of the total.

9/14

And then solve.

Answer is aprox 64%

What do you mean by that?