. A painter mixes two and a half pints of yellow paint with 4 pints of red paint to make a certain shade of orange paint. How many pints of yellow paint should be mixed with 10 pints of red paint to make this shade of orange? Show your work.

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Step-by-step explanation:

A painter mixes 2 1/2 pints (2.5 pints) of yellow paint with 4 pints of red paint to make a certain shade of orange paint. The ratio of yellow paint to red paint is 2.5:4. In order to find the pints of yellow paint needed to be mixed with 10 pints of red paint, we will use conversion fractions.

10 red pints × (2.5 yellow pints/ 4 red pints) ≈ 6 pints (we round off to 1 significant figure)

answer: 21$

step-by-step explanation:

$42 / $14 = 3   (ratio 3: 1)

$7 x 3 = $21

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