A painter mixed 5 pints of white paint, 3 pints of blue paint, and 4 pints of yellow paint. He wrote the ratio 3:12. Which statement BEST describes this ratio?
A. the ratio of the number of pints of white and yellow paint to the number of pints of blue paint
B. the ratio of the number of pints of blue paint to the number of pints of blue and yellow paint
C. the ratio of the number of pints of yellow paint needed to make 4 times as much blue paint
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D. the ratio of the number of pints of blue paint to the total number of pints of paint