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A boat can travel 80 miles on 20 gallons of gasoline, how far can it travel on 114 gallons

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To solve this, we'll use a rule of three:

This way,


x=(80\cdot114)/(20)\Rightarrow x=456

The boat would be able to travel 456 miles with 114 gallons of gasoline

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