Julie uses 6.2 pints of white paint and blue paint to paint her bedroom walls.
1/4
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?
b + w = 6.2 pints
1/4 is white; therefore, 3/4 is blue so
3/4 x 6.2 = 0.75 x 6.2 = ? pints are blue