Wedding Attire, and Q of the D

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My brother is getting married, this January we do believe, and my future sister-in-law has asked me to be a bridesmaid. I have mixed feelings about this, but she is a sweetheart and I'm touched that she asked, so of course I said yes. (The fact that my mother threatened me against saying "no" also had some influence.)

This is the color she has chosen for the dresses:



It really is a very pretty color, but it is going to look wretched on my pasty pale skin! Oh, how I can't wait to have framed photos of me looking like a chronically ill prom date plastered everywhere!



Here's another set of warm-up questions I posed to my students; as always, feel free to give them a try for a virtual kudos!



If you're having trouble seeing the picture, it depicts 10 red marbles, 7 blue marbles, and 3 orange marbles. The questions are:

1. How many more blue marbles are there than orange marbles?
   
2. What fraction of the marbles are red?
   
3. What is the ratio of blue marbles to the total number of marbles?
   
4. What percent of the marbles are orange?
   

Comments

[vivitchi.livejournal.com]

I PRESENT TO YOU VIRTUAL KUDOS FOR YOUR QUESTIONS. Because I am too tired to actually try them myself, although I admit I am sorely tempted. xD

And the dress colour is lovely, bb! Blue is my favourite colour, and although you say you have pale skin, I actually think that colour looks better on skin not so tanned as the model in the picture. Honest!

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I'm hoping that's true; however, I tend to look really washed-out in jewel tones. Stay tuned to find out if I end up looking like a giant blue freak!