CANON AE-1 35MM camera questions?

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I have a canon ae-1 camera and right now i'm trying to figure out how to use the apertures through an online source.

this source states that the camera should have "f-stops" (which are aperture sizes or whatever) and should read as so:

F/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22, f/32.

well my lens which is just a "canon zoom lens fd 35-70mm 1: 3.5-4.5" (this is what it says on the lens)

the aperture labels or what i assume they are begin with:

3.5, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22

it doesn't have an F/3.5 just the number.

so my question is how do i go about using it? and why doesn't it have the aperture listings that the online source says it should have?

ALSO, it has two lines a blue one and a pink one that are above the aperture sizes and i'm not sure whether to line up the f/stops with the blue or the pink one or to put it in-between?

can someone help please? thank you guys. i hope it's not too confusing.
 
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