Question

Two friends, Lucy and Lydia, had just bought their first cars. Lydia uses 3 gallons of gas to drive 114 miles in her car. The graph below represents the number of miles, y that Lucy can drive her car for every gallons of gas. Lucy's Gas Mileage 00 850 600 FO 500 (10,415) NEXT SLIME DO (5,207 5) 13 Gallops of Gas How many miles less doen Lydia's car travel on one gallon of gas than Lucy's car?​

Answer 1

3.5 miles

Explanation:

Lydia:

3 gallons of gas = 114 miles

We want to know how many miles a friend can travel on one gallon of gas, so we divide both sides by 3

1 gallon of gas = 114/3 miles = 38 miles

Lucy:

One point is

10x corresponds to 415y

10 gallons = 415 miles

divide both sides by 10 to get one gallon on a side

1 gallon = 41.5 miles

Lydia:

38 miles = 1 gallon

Lucy:

41.5 miles = 1 gallon

For 1 gallon, the difference is 3.5 miles, with Lydia having 3.5 miles less than Lucy.