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A scooter maintains a pace of 1.45 minutes per mile, with fuel economy of 85 miles per gallon. How many seconds can it travel on 145 mL of fuel under these conditions?

User Zell Faze
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Answer:

283 seconds

Explanation:

The computation of the number of seconds would it travel is as follows

Pace is


(1.45\ minute)/(mile)= (87\ seconds)/(mile) \\\\Fuel\ economy = (85\ mile)/(gallon)

The volume of fuel = 145 ml = 0.0383 gallon

Now from 145 ml of the scooter fuel would be

=
(85\ mile)/(gallon) * 0.0383\ gallon

= 3.255 mile

Now time for travel is

=
(87\ sec)/(mile) * 3.255\ mile\\

= 283 seconds

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