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Miller and his son uses 2/5 of a gallon of paint on every front door they painted how many cans of paint will they use on 16 doors

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We need to determine
(2)/(5) * 16. This is because
(2)/(5) is the cmount of paint used for one door, and we need to determine how much paint to use for 16 doors. In order to multiply a fraction by a whole number, we need to multiply the whole number and the numerator and keep the denominator.


(2)/(5) * 16 = (32)/(5) = 6(2)/(5)

Therefore, you would need 30.4 gallons of paint to paint 16 doors.

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