Question

Quavo is going on a long-distance car trip. He begins with 16 gallons of gas in his car and his car burns 3 gallons of gas each hour. If he ends his road trip with 1 gallon of gas left in the tank, how many hours was he driving?

A 5 hours
B 10 hours
C 15 hours
D 20 hours

Answer 1

Quavo was driving for 5 hours.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of hours Quavo was driving, we need to determine how many gallons of gas he used during the trip. Quavo starts with 16 gallons of gas and ends with 1 gallon, so he used 16 - 1 = 15 gallons of gas. Since his car burns 3 gallons of gas per hour, we can divide the total gallons used (15) by the gallons burned per hour (3) to find the number of hours he was driving. 15 / 3 = 5 hours. Therefore, Quavo was driving for 5 hours.