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You have been hired at Home Hardware in the paint department…

You have been hired at Home Hardware in the paint department. A customer is confused about why you are NOT mixing red and blue together to make purple. Color theory for light focuses on how light’s wavelengths create colour, using additive colour (RGB) for screens and stage lighting (mixing red, green, blue light makes white) versus subtractive (CMY/RYB) for pigments (absorbing light makes darker colours). Key concepts include hue, saturation, and value, with human eyes seeing colours based on the stimulation of red, green, and blue cones, fundamentally differing from pigment mixing.    A. Explain to the customer using appropriate scientific terms how you would create purple paint using your knowledge of colour theory. (2 marks)   B. What colour theory is being applied to this scenario? (1 mark)