Question

Gasoline is used to power most of the cars in the United States and worldwide. The average fuel economy for a gasoline powered car is about 32 miles per gallon. The average car in the U.S. Is driven about 15 000 miles (24 000 kilometers) per year. Calculate the number of gallons of gasoline that are combusted by the average car in the U.S. Each year.

Answer 1

469 gallons

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question given, we were told that:

For every 32 miles, 1 gallon of gasoline is consumed.

With the above information, we can obtain the number of gallon of gasoline consumed by a car per year i.e 15000 miles

This is illustrated below:

If 32 miles consumed 1 gallon of gasoline,

Therefore, 15000 miles will consume = 15000/32 ≈ 469 gallons of gasoline.

Therefore, 469 gallons of gasoline is consumed by the average car each year

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