Question

Janet uses 6.5 pins of white paint and blue paint to paint her bedroom walls. 2/5 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

3.9 pints

Explanation:

Given:

Caroline uses 6.5 pints of blue paint and white paint to paint her bedroom walls.

2/5 of this amount is blue paint, and the rest is white paint.

To find :

How many pints of white paint did she use to paint her bedroom walls?

Solution:

Caroline uses pints of blue paint and white paint = 6.5

Amount of blue paint = 6.5 - 2.6 = 3.9 pints

Therefore, 3.9 pints of white paint she used to paint her bedroom walls.

Answer 2

She used 3.36 pints of white paint. if you were to convert the fraction to 60% then you would just have to find 40% of 8.4 and thats 3.36.