Question

Gas mileage is the number of miles you can drive on a gallon of gasoline. A test of a new car results in 440 miles on10 gallons of gas. How far could you drive on 60 gallons of gas? What is the cars gas mileage?

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Answer 1

Okay. So you can go 440 miles on 10 miles of gas. That’s 44 miles for 1 gallon of gas. For 60 miles of gas, you have to do 440 * 6. When you do that, your product should be 2,640. You can drive 2,640 miles on 69 gallons of gas and 44 miles per gallon of gas.