Juanita is mixing orange and blue paint to make yellow paint. She has 5/8 of a gallon of blue paint, but she needs 7/8 of a gallon. How much more blue paint does she need? Simplify the answer.(1 point)
Responses
1/8
12/8
2/8
1/4
To find out how much more blue paint Juanita needs, we need to subtract the amount of blue paint she already has (5/8) from the amount she needs (7/8).
7/8 - 5/8 = 2/8
So, Juanita needs 2/8 more blue paint. Simplifying this fraction further, we get 1/4.
Therefore, Juanita needs 1/4 more blue paint.
To find out how much more blue paint Juanita needs, we need to subtract the amount she already has from the amount she needs.
Juanita has 5/8 of a gallon of blue paint.
She needs 7/8 of a gallon.
To find the difference, we subtract 5/8 from 7/8:
7/8 - 5/8 = (7 - 5) / 8 = 2/8
So, Juanita needs 2/8 more blue paint.
Now, we can simplify the answer:
2/8 = 1/4
Therefore, Juanita needs 1/4 more blue paint.
To find out how much more blue paint Juanita needs, we need to subtract the amount she already has (5/8 gallon) from the amount she needs (7/8 gallon):
7/8 - 5/8 = 2/8
The simplified answer is 1/4 gallon. Therefore, Juanita needs 1/4 more gallon of blue paint.