Question

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You just drove your car 450 miles and used 50 gallons of gas. You know that the gas tank on your car holds 16 1/2 gallons of gas.
What is the most number of miles you can drive on one tank of gas?

Answer 1

Answer: 148.5 miles

Explanation:

450/50 gals= 9 miles can be driven for every 1 gallon.

Since we now know that our car uses 1 gallon of gas for every 9 miles we drive, we can now multiply the 9 miles with the 16 1/2= 16.5. So 16.5x9=148.5.

With our 16 1/2 gas tank, we can travel at least 148.5 miles before running out of gas.