SOLUTION: Gasoline accounts for 85% of the motor fuel consumed in the United States every day. If 8,882 thousand barrels of motor fuel are consumed each day, how much gasoline is consumed ea

SOLUTION: Gasoline accounts for 85% of the motor fuel consumed in the United States every day. If 8,882 thousand barrels of motor fuel are consumed each day, how much gasoline is consumed ea

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Question 314191: Gasoline accounts for 85% of the motor fuel consumed in the United States every day. If 8,882 thousand barrels of motor fuel are consumed each day, how much gasoline is consumed each day in the United States?
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Sorry. I misread the problem
8,882*.85=7,549.7 gallons of gas.
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