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

[jacknjill270.livejournal.com]

I hear you about the dress color - when my best friend asked me to be her maid of honor, I was really excited. Then she told me her colors were going to be pale pink and lavender, and I look terrible in both those colors. But I think that color would actually look good on someone with pale skin, especially if the material wasn't really shiny. So you might not end up looking like a chronically ill prom date after all! :)

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So everyone keeps saying! I'll have to take the advice everyone's giving me, and assume the color won't be a problem.

Oh dear--pale pink AND lavender? Together?