Question

Kate uses 9.8 pints of white paint and blue paint to paint her bedroom walls.

3/4 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

2.45 pints of blue paint she use to paint her bedroom walls .

Explanation:

Here we have , Kate uses 9.8 pints of white paint and blue paint to paint her bedroom walls. 3/4 of this amount is white paint, and the rest is blue paint. We need to find How many pints of blue paint did she use to paint her bedroom walls .Let's find out:

It's given that , Kate uses 9.8 pints of white paint and blue paint and 3/4 of this amount is white pain i.e.

⇒
`9.8((3)/(4))`

⇒
`9.8(0.75)`

⇒
`7.35`

So , Amount of blue paint is given by :

⇒
`white + blue = TotalPaint\\`

⇒
`7.35+ blue =9.80`

⇒
`blue =2.45`

Therefore , 2.45 pints of blue paint she use to paint her bedroom walls .