Question

Jon’s car gets 35.5 miles per gallon in town he used 0.3 gallon to drive to a meeting in town how many miles did John drive

Answer 1

Explanation:

Set this up as a ratio, since it's easiest to solve it this way. Put your miles on the top of the ratio and gallons on the bottom:

`(m)/(g) :(35.5)/(1)`

This ratio says that Jon gets 35.5 miles per 1 gallon of gas. We can use that ratio now, along with another, to solve for the number of miles he drove if he used .3 gallons of gas:

`(m)/(g) :(35.5)/(1) =(x)/(.3)`

Cross multiply to solve:

1x = 35.5(.3) so

x = 10.65 miles