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jen uses 8.2 of blue paint and white paint to paint her bedroom walls. 4/5ths 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?

jen uses 82 of blue paint and white paint to paint her bedroom walls 45ths of this amount is blue paint and the rest is white paint how many pints of white pain class=

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Answer:

The amount of white paint Jen used to paint the walls in her room is:

  • 1.64 pints.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve the exercise you only have to pay attention to the statement, in the section that says that 4/5 parts of the total painting is blue, therefore, if 1 is the total painting, you must do a subtraction:

  • 1 - 4/5 = 1/5

Since the remaining white paint is 1/5 of the total, you have two ways to solve the exercise: multiply the total paint (8.2 pints) by 1/5 or divide the number by 5, as shown below:

  • Amount of white paint = 8.2 pints * (1/5) = 1.64 pints.
  • Amount of white paint = 8.2 pints / 5 = 1.64 pints.

As you can see, the two methods provide a value of 1.64 pints, which corresponds to 1/5 of the total paint and is the amount of white paint used.

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