Question

Abby uses 6.3 pints of white paint and blue paint to paint her bedroom walls. 3 4 of this amount is white paint, and the rest is blue paint. How many pints of blue paint did she use to paint her bedroom walls?

Answer 1

Abby used a total of 6.3 pints of white and blue paint, and 3/4 of this amount is white paint. Therefore, the fraction of the total amount that is blue paint is:

1 - 3/4 = 1/4

To find out how many pints of blue paint Abby used, we need to multiply the total amount of paint by this fraction. That is:

blue paint = (1/4) x 6.3 pints = 1.575 pints

Therefore, Abby used 1.575 pints of blue paint to paint her bedroom walls.