Allie, Benton, and Cathy are planning to mix red and yellow…

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Allie, Bentоn, аnd Cаthy аre planning tо mix red and yellоw paint. They are considering which of the following paint mixtures will make a more yellow paint:a mixture of 3 cups red and 5 cups yellowa mixture of 4 cups red and 6 cups yellowAllie says that both paints will look the same because to make the second mixture you just add 1 cup of each color to the first mixture. Benton says that the second mixture should be more yellow than the first mixture because it uses more yellow than the first mixture. Cathy says that both paints should look the same because each uses 2 cups more yellow than red.Answer each of the following:a) Consider the students' ideas. Is their reasoning valid or not?b) Which paint will be more yellow, and why? Use a ratio table to solve this problem in two different ways, explaining in detail why you can solve the problem the way you do. 

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Cоаt cоlоr in cаts is determined by genes аt several different loci. At one locus on the X chromosome, one allele (X+) encodes black fur; another allele (Xo) encodes orange fur. Females can be black (X+X+), orange (Xo Xo), or a mixture of orange and black called tortoiseshell (X+Xo). Males are either black (X+Y) or orange (XoY). There is another gene on an autosome that determines how saturated the coat color is. The full color allele (D) gives a saturated coated color and is dominant to dilute color (d) that leads to a lighter coat color.    If a full color tortoiseshell female cat is crossed to a full color orange male cat (both cats are heterozygous at the D locus), what proportion of the progeny would you expect to be full color orange males?   If a full color tortoiseshell female cat is crossed to a full color orange male cat (both cats are heterozygous at the D locus), what proportion of the progeny would you expect to be dilute color tortoiseshell females?

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