Henry needs 2 pints of red paint and 3 pints of yellow paint to get a specific shade of orange. if he uses 9 pints of yellow paint and wants the same orange color, how many pints of paint will he need altogether? explain how you know.

Henry will need 6 pints of red color.

All together he will need 15 pints.

Step-by-step explanation:

Henry needs 2 pints of red paint and 3 pints of yellow paint to get a specific shade of orange.

The ratio is 2:3

Now he uses 9 pints of yellow paint so we need to find the pins of red paint used to get the same orange.

Let the pints of red paint be x

We can relate this as:

Solving for x;

So, x = 6

Hence, 6 pints of red color are needed.

And all together Henry needs pints of paint.

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