Wedding Attire, and Q of the D

[apple_pathways]

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

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Is that Horizon? I feel like such a dork even knowing David's Bridal colours, but I was just in a friend's wedding a month ago, and she had all of us in that colour (or something very similar). Most of us are pretty much of a pasty nature (even during the summer), and none of us looked terrible in it. It also varies quite a bit depending on what kind of fabric the dress is. I was gonna say that I have lots of pictures of us so you can see regular people in that shade of blue, but her wedding photographer did a lot of mucking about with the hues and saturation, so it doesn't really look true-to life in any of them. (-;

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

OMG, that is Horizon! And I'm amazed you knew it was David't Bridal, too. Virtual head pat to you for knowing your colors!

I'm glad to hear it works on pasty girls, because in the middle of January, my skin is practically translucent. (My dad calls me powder.) I'm thinking, though, with the right makeup and hair color, it won't be a problem. Now I'll just cross my fingers that she doesn't go strapless!