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A car travels 150 miles on 12 gallons of gasoline. How many gallons of gasoline are needed to travel 500 miles?

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they need 40 gallons 
User Atyachin
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Hello!

First you have to find how far the car goes with 1 gallon of gas

To find this you do 150/12

150/12 = 12.5

The car goes 12.5 miles for 1 gallon of gas

Next you do how far the car needs to go divided by how far it goes on 1 gallon of gas

500/12.5 = 40

The car needs 40 gallons to travel 500 miles

The answer is 40

Hope this helps!
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