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Avenger uses 9.4 pints of white paint and blue paint to paint her bedroom walls 4/5 of this amount is white paint in the breast is blue paint how many pints of blue paint did you use to paint her bedroom walls

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Avenger uses 9.4 pints of white paint and blue paint to paint her bedroom walls 4/5 of this amount is white paint in the breast is blue paint how many pints of blue paint did you use to paint her bedroom walls

Let

x ----> pints of blue paint

y ----> pints of white paint

we have

x+y=9.4 -----> equation A

y=(4/5)*9.4

y=7.52

Find the value of x

x=9.4-y

x=9.4-7.52

x=1.88

therefore

answer is

1.88 pints of blue paint

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