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A family has two cars. The first car has a fuel efficiency of 40 miles per gallon of gas and the second has a fuel efficiency of 35 miles per gallon of gas. During one particular week, the two cars went a combined total of 1300 miles, for a total gas consumption of 35 gallons. How many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week?

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the first car went through 32.5 gallons and the second car went through 37.14 gallons of gas.
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Answer:

first car is 20

second car is 15

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