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A vehicle uses 3 gallons of gasoline to travel 19 1/2 miles. At this rate, how many miles can the vehicletravel per gallon of gasoline?

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3 gallons ---------------------------- 19.5 miles

1 gallon ----------------------------- x

x = (1 x 19.5)/3

x = 6.5 miles/gallon

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