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You need to repaint the ceiling in your house. You measure to find that you have 201,600 inches square of ceiling paint. When you go to the store you find that a gallon of white ceiling paint covers about 325ft square. How many full gallons of paint would you need to purchase in order to paint all the ceilings in your house?

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Solution:

Consider the following diagram (rule of 3) :

solving for x, we get:

[tex]x\text{ = }\frac{201600}{3900}\text{ = 51.69 gallons}[/tex]

then, the correct answer is:

[tex]x\text{ = 51.69 gallons}[/tex]

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