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An artist wants to make a particular teal color paint by mixing a 75% blue hue and 25% yellow hue. He mixes a blue hue that has 85% pure blue pigment and a yellow hue that has 60% of pure yellow pigment. What is the percent of pure pigment that is in the resulting teal color paint?

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Answer:
Let p represent the teal color paint.
(0.75 × 0. 85p) + (0. 25 × 0.6p) = 0.7875p 78.75% of pure pigment is in the resulting teal color paint.