. 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)

correct answer:

b.(19,-2)

x = 17

step-by-step explanation:

1st step: isolate x.

24 - 3x = -27

-24         -24

-3x   =   -51

2nd step: divide.

-3x     =   -51

  3             3

  x       =     17

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