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Dwight can drive 60 miles for each gallon of gas on his motorcycle how far can do I drive if his motorcycle has 3 gallons of gass

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we can use cross multiplication


\begin{gathered} 60\longrightarrow1 \\ X\longrightarrow3 \end{gathered}

so, X is:


\begin{gathered} X=(3*60)/(1) \\ X=180 \end{gathered}

so Dwight can drive 180 milles fior 3 gallons

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