It took 3.5 gallons of paint to cover a wall that is 985 square feet. How many gallons will it take

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It took 3.5 gallons of paint to cover a wall that is 985 square feet. How many gallons will it take to cover a wall that is 6501 square feet?

Set up a proportion of gallons of paint to square feet where n is the number of gallons of paint to cover 6501 square feet
3.5/985 = n/6501

Using our proportion calculator, we get:
n = 23.1