Green or Blue?

Please do not treat this solution too serious. @Fletcher Mattox best regards!

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"""
not so serious solution of:
    https://brilliant.org/problems/green-or-blue/?ref_id=1613431
"""
import urllib.request
import PIL.Image


def get_image(image_url):
    """
    returns the image from image_url
    """
    return PIL.Image.open(urllib.request.urlopen(image_url)).convert('RGB')


def get_color_num_dict(in_image):
    """
    returns a dictionary with number of pixels in given color data
    res[color] = number of pixels in color
    """
    return {key: num for (num, key)
            in in_image.getcolors(in_image.size[0]*in_image.size[1])}


IMAGE_URL = \
    'https://ds055uzetaobb.cloudfront.net/brioche/uploads/Hu6ebybcDY-green-or-blue_.png'


GREEN_COL = (0, 204, 0)
BLUE_COL = (0, 0, 255)
COLOR_NUM_DICT = get_color_num_dict(get_image(IMAGE_URL))


print(f"number of blue pixels: {COLOR_NUM_DICT[BLUE_COL]}")
print(f"number of green pixels: {COLOR_NUM_DICT[GREEN_COL]}")

Just as Percy said

They are always equal

Now knowing to combat this principle the answer won’t be them being equal, so at a 50-50 you can get it right

The Actual Method (to be hopefully completed)

@Fletcher Mattox @Saya Suka How do I proceed from here(I need to find the ratio between $a$ and $b$ or need to show $b<a\sqrt8$ )