Which colour is made by mixing blue and red?

Correct answer: Violet

Blue and red are two primary colours in the traditional art colour wheel. Mixing them produces violet, a secondary colour, so option B is correct. This can be recalled through the three standard combinations: yellow plus blue produces green, red plus yellow produces orange, and blue plus red produces violet. Yellow is not produced by this mixture because it is itself one of the primary colours in this model. Green and orange are plausible distractors because each is also secondary, but each requires a different pair of primaries. Pigments can create slightly different violet shades depending on their proportions, yet the accepted school-art result of blue mixed with red is violet.