Question

You are running a fuel economy study. One of the cars you find is blue. It can travel 43 1/2 on 1 1/4 gallons of gasoline. Another car is red. It can travel 25 3/5 miles on 4/5 galoon of gasoline. What is the unit rate for miles per gallon for each​ car? Which car could travel the greater distance on 1 gallon of​ gasoline?

Answer 1

35 1/2 divided by 1 1/4 then 27 1/5 divided by 4/5

For the blue car the answer is 28.4.

For the red car the answer is 34.