Question

A car traveled 63 miles on 3 gallons of gas. What proportion can you set up to determine how many miles, m, the car can travel on 7 gallons of gas?

Answer 1

63 miles / 3 gallons = m miles / 7 gallons

Explanation:

We're know from the problem that mileages is proportional to gallons of gas.

Since we're already given that the car traveled 63 miles on 3 gallons of gas and we want to determine the number of miles (m) the car can travel on 7 gallons of gas, we can use the following proportion:

63 miles / 3 gallons = m miles / 7 gallons