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A boat can travel 44

miles on 4 gallons of
gasoline. How much
gasoline will it need to
go 198 miles?

User Pako
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Use a proportion if you can’t visualize the problem: 44miles/4gal=198miles/xgal

44x=792

ANSWER: 18 gasoline
User Aziza Kasenova
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