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| okay I want to take my 12X13 sitting room (5 doorways, 1 double wide window, 1 elongated window, + 1 fireplace with wide chimney) and do a gradiation of color.
If I take 1 gallon of paint and want to figure out how much per 4 paint cans (you can buy them empty) how do I figure this out... The bottom will be 100% creamy yellow.
So if a gallon has 128oz how do I figure the math for this? |
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- Posted by hayley1999_99 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 5, 11 at 16:11
| I guess I should explain I'm doing 4 rows of color. The bottom being the most creamy yellow and working on lighter as I go up. |
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| For the yellow, to divide 128 ounces of paint into four buckets, add up the percentages: 100 + 75 + 50 + 25 to get 250 and divide that by the amount of paint, 128 oz. and you get 0.5 oz as your multiplier. So multiple 0.5 by the percentage in each can: Going from bottom to top in yellow: Going from bottom to top in white, fill each can to 50 oz:
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- Posted by hayley1999_99 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 7, 11 at 1:12
| thank you, I wonder why it doesn't add up to 128oz. When I add it, it comes to 125oz. |
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| When I divided 128 by 250, I rounded the number to 0.5 oz. You can redo the math with more precision and properly allot the extra 3 ounces of yellow paint to the four buckets. |
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