Question

You are baking and run out of an important ingredient. Rather than fire up the car, you decide to use a bicycle. The store is 1/2 mile away. Assume your car gets 30 miles to the gallon. If every driver on the planet made a similar decision once per week for a year, approximately how much gas would be saved for that year? (As this is an estimate, you may make the arithmetic easier by assuming a year has 50 weeks rather than 52 weeks. What number do you use for 'every driver on the planet'?) a. 100 million gallons b. 2 billion gallons c. 20,000 gallons d. 200,000 gallons e. 2 million gallons

Answer 1

Answer: this one is tough. There is a estimated 1.2 billion drivers to help best I could. I did the math the best I could and didn’t get an answer close to the choices. Just guessing I’d guess C. 20,000 because of logic.

Explanation: I can’t help much but would love to hear how to work this out.