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suppose you own a car that gets 35 miles to a gallon of gasoline and gasoline costs $1.25 per gallon. how many gallons of gas can $25 buy?

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The answer of your question is 20 gallons of gasoline. It just a simple division you just have to divide $25 which is the given money to buy an exact amount of gallon by $1.25 which is the price of each gallon. So you would come up to an answer of 20 gallons.
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