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A motor bike gets $60 kilometers per gallon of gasoline how many gallons of gasoline would the bike need to travel 240 kilometers

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Make a proportion:

60 km/ 1 g = 240 km/ x

Cross multiply to find x.

60x = 240

x = 4 The bike would need 4 gallons of gasoline.
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