SOLUTION: There are 4 pints of green paint in a gallon bucket. The paint is made from equal amounts of yellow paint and blue paint. To create a different shade of green, the mixture needs to

Question 971848: There are 4 pints of green paint in a gallon bucket. The paint is made from equal amounts of yellow paint and blue paint. To create a different shade of green, the mixture needs to be 80% yellow. How many pints of yellow paint need to be added to the bucket to make the mixture 80% yellow?
Brandon says to get that shade of green, 6 pints of yellow paint need to be added to the bucket. Bianca says that won't work. In two or more complete sentences, explain who is correct and why. In your explanation, include the calculations to support the correct answer.

Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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There are 2 pints of blue and 2 pints of yellow in the bucket.
To be 80% yellow, the new color will be (100%-80%=) 20% blue.
2 pints is 20% of (2 pints/0.20=) 10 pints.
With 4 pints in the bucket, to make 10 pints you should add
(10 pints-4 pints=) 6 more pints of yellow paint.
ANSWER: You should add 6 pints of yellow to the 4 pints of green in the bucket to make the new color that is 80% yellow.
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