The document discusses painting walls and calculating costs for painting projects. It includes examples of how to calculate the amount of paint needed for fences, silos, and house walls. The worksheet contains math problems asking the reader to determine ratios of paints, surface areas to be painted, amounts of paint required, and fractional amounts of wall space remaining to be painted.

1. Painting and Walls
November 07, 2013
Bellwork
Objective: Painting and Refinishing
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2. Painting and Walls
November 07, 2013
Total Cost Wkst Answer Key
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3. Painting and Walls
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A color called shocking pink is made by mixing red paint with white paint.
The ratio of red to white is 2 to 7.
How much red paint should be mixed with 16 fl oz of white?
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4. Painting and Walls
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Gerard has been hired to paint a fence that is 184 feet long and 6 feet
high. What is the total fence area to be painted?
If 1 gallon of paint covers 400 square feet, how many gallons of paint must
Gerard buy? At $17.95 per gallon, what will be the total cost of the paint?
Velma has to paint a solid red band one quarter of the way around
a silo that is 148 feet in diameter.
What will the length of the band be? round to the nearest 0.1 foot.
Oct 30­2:56 PM
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5. Painting and Walls
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The interior walls of a house contain a total area of 3,250 square feet. A
painter and decorator paint 1,950 square feet. What decimal fraction of the
total wall area is the area that remains to be painted?
(why might this be important for a contractor)
Oct 30­2:58 PM
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6. Painting and Walls
November 07, 2013
Worksheet
Oct 28­10:41 AM
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