SOLUTION: If your car now gets 9.00 km/L of gasoline, and if you can go 400 km on a tank of gasoline, how far could you drive with the same amount of gasoline in a car that gets 15.0 km/L

Question 1171039: If your car now gets 9.00 km/L of gasoline, and if you can go 400 km on a tank of gasoline,
how far could you drive with the same amount of gasoline in a car that gets 15.0 km/L
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This can be done using two SIMPLE PROPORTIONS using units for

--------------solve for this v.

Now, different car, but the same v of gasoline. How far?
This car goes at 15 km/L.

----------You would have already found the needed v; now you solve the new equation for d.

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Note that I said, "two simple proportions" can be a way to solve. These can be more like:

and then

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