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A car used 1/48 of a gallon of gas to drive 1/4 of a mile . At this rate , how many miles can the car travel using 1 gallon of gas

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You can set up a ratio with 1/48 = 1/4 and 1 = x. You want to find a value that you can multiply the first equation by to get the second (called a scalar multiple). In our case, this is 48. So you multiple (1/48) * 48, and (1/4)* 48 to get an answer of (48/4), or 12 miles.
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12 miles

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Your car uses 1/12th of its entire gas to go a single mile. This means that you need to drive 12 miles to run out of gas.

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