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A car travels about 32 miles on 1 gallon of gas. While a truck drives about 260 miles on 9.75 gallons of gas. Which gets better gas mileage?

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In order to determine which vehicle gets better gas mileage, we need to determine which of the two vehicles consumes less gas for each mile travelled. The car consumes 1 gallon of gas for every 32 miles. We shall now determine how many miles the truck covers to consume 1 gallon of gas.


\begin{gathered} \text{Truck} \\ 9.75gl=260\text{miles} \\ 1gl=(260)/(9.75)\text{miles} \\ 1gl=26.67miles \end{gathered}
\begin{gathered} \text{Car} \\ 1gl=32\text{miles} \end{gathered}

Therefore, the results shows that the truck gets better gas mileage

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