Question

Car gets 35.5 miles on 1.5 gallons. How many miles per gallon

Answer 1

23 and 2/3 miles per gallon.

Explanation:

1st way:

So you have 35.5 miles which your car can drive with 1.5 gallons.

1 gallon is two-thirds of 1.5 gallons.

Let's multiply 35.5 miles by two-thirds.

35.5 miles x (2/3) = 23 and 2/3 miles

Now we have the answer, which is 23 and 2/3 miles per gallon.

2nd way:

35.5 miles /3 = 11.83333333 miles

1.5 gallons /3 = 0.5 gallon

11.83333333 miles x 2 = 23.66666666 miles,

which is the equivalent of 23 and 2/3 miles.

0.5 gallon x 2 = 1 gallon.

For 1 gallon, you can get 23 and 2/3 miles.

Answer 2

About 23.6miles

Explanation:

So 1.5x=35.5miles

In this we do division by 1.5 on both sides

So we get 1.5x/1.5=35.5/1.5

Then we get x = 23.6666666667 miles

We can round this two the nearest hundredth being x is about 23.6 miles