Question

The ower of a gas station must collect a gasoline tax of $0.12 on each gallon of gasoline sold. On Tuesday, the owner paid $264.60 in gasoline yaxes. How many gallons of gasoline were sold on Tuesday

Answer 1

The total amount of taxes paid is known and the tax per gallon is also known. The number of gallons of gasoline can be obtained by dividing the total tax paid with the tax paid per gallon of gasoline.

Gallons of gasoline = $264.60 / $0.12

Hence, there were 2,205 gallons of gasoline sold.


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