Given:
Sharon uses 6.3 pints of blue paint and white paint to paint her bedroom walls.
of this amount is blue paint and the rest is white paint.
To find:
The pints of white paint did she use to paint her bedroom walls.
Solution:
We have,
Total paint used = 6.3 pints
Blue paint =
of total paint used
=
=
White paint = Total paint used - Blue paint
=
=
Therefore, Sharon uses 1.26 pints of white paint to paint her bedroom walls.