SOLUTION: 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 corr

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Question 1079802: 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.

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Need to know what shade of green, size of bucket, how much yellow and other colors are present.
Answer by rapture(86)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is missing data in this problem.

All we are given is 6 pints.

How can anyone work out this problem?

There is nothing here to calculate.

Understand?

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