When you magnified the white background on your monitor, were you surprised to see red, green and blue? What do you think you will see when you magnify the colored squares below? Try it!

Think about it!

	What colors do you find in these squares?
	Are they different than what you observed earlier?
	Do you think that three colors can make up all of the colors that you see on your monitor?

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