Final answer:
The program calculates a car's gas mileage by dividing the number of miles driven on a full tank by the number of gallons of gas the tank can hold, yielding MPG.
Step-by-step explanation:
The program calculates a car's gas mileage, which is the distance a car can travel on a certain amount of gasoline. To write such a program, one needs to request input for the number of gallons of gasoline that the car's tank can hold (c) and the number of miles it can be driven on a full tank. Using these two pieces of data, the gas mileage can be calculated by dividing the miles driven by the gallons of gas used. The resulting value will be the car's fuel efficiency in miles per gallon (MPG).
Example
# Prompt the user for input gallons = float(input("Enter the number of gallons the gas tank can hold: "))
miles = float(input("Enter the number of miles that can be driven on a full tank: "))
# Calculate gas mileage
gas_mileage = miles/gallons
# Display the result
print("The gas mileage of the car is", gas_mileage, "miles per gallon.")
This program will output the car's fuel efficiency, giving us a clear understanding of how well the car uses gasoline. Note that this calculation assumes the car runs efficiently and consistently across all the miles.