Question

Genevieve uses 6.5 pints of blue paint and white paint to paint her bedroom walls. 1 4 of this amount is blue paint, and the rest is white paint. How many pints of white paint did she use to paint her bedroom walls? Express your answer in fraction and decimal form.

Answer 1

3/4 = 16/x. Step-by-step explanation: Set up the original ratio: 3:4 (a.k.a. 3/4 or 3 to 4) Because 16 correlates to red paint and 3 correlates to red paint the will be in the same location (as the numerator or denominator).. Also, the amount of blue paint is unknown so that is x.4 also represents blue paint, so 4 and x will also be on the same level (as the numerator of denominator).

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