SOLUTION: You are painting a room. After 18 minutes, 64% of the room still needs painted. How long does it take to paint the entire room? Write an equation that represents the percent y of t

SOLUTION: You are painting a room. After 18 minutes, 64% of the room still needs painted. How long does it take to paint the entire room? Write an equation that represents the percent y of t

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Question 1064499: You are painting a room. After 18 minutes, 64% of the room still needs painted. How long does it take to paint the entire room? Write an equation that represents the percent y of the room that still needs painted after x minutes.
An equation is y=?
It take ? minutes to pain the room
.
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x=time to pain the whole room.
.36x=18 minutes
x=18/.36
x=50 minutes to paint the whole room.
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