Question

Kimberly uses 6.7 pints of blue paint in white paint to paint her bedroom walls 3/5 of this amount is blue paint and the rest is white paint how many pints of white paint did you use to paint her bedroom walls

Answer 1

2.68 pints

Explanation:

The fraction of white paint is 1 -3/5 = 2/5, so the quantity of white paint is ...

(2/5)(6.7 pints) = 2.68 pints

Kimberly used 2.68 pints of white paint.