Pearl uses 9.8 pints of blue paint and white paint to paint her bedroom walls. 2 5 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?

She use 5.88 pints of white paint.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Pearl uses 9.8 pints of blue paint and white paint to paint her bedroom walls. of this amount is blue paint, and the rest is white paint.

Now, to find the pints of white paint she use.

Pearl uses total pint of paint = 9.8 pints.

The amount of blue paint

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Thus, the amount of blue paint = 3.92 pints.

Now, to get the white paint we subtract the amount of blue paint from  the total pint of paint:

Therefore, she use 5.88 pints of white paint.