SOLUTION: A Honda Accord gets approximately 26 mpg on the higway and 19 mpg in the city. You drove 349.5 miles on a full tank (16 gallons) of gasoline. Approximately how many miles did you

Question 245902: A Honda Accord gets approximately 26 mpg on the higway and 19 mpg in the city. You drove 349.5 miles on a full tank (16 gallons) of gasoline. Approximately how many miles did you drive in the city and how many miles on the highway?
Answer by dabanfield(803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A Honda Accord gets approximately 26 mpg on the higway and 19 mpg in the city. You drove 349.5 miles on a full tank (16 gallons) of gasoline. Approximately how many miles did you drive in the city and how many miles on the highway?
Let x be the number of miles of highway driving. That means that 349.5-x is the number of miles of city driving.
The gas consumption is calculated by multiplying the number of miles driven by the mpg (miles per gallon) in each case.
So we have:
(26*x) + 19*(349.5-x) = 16
Solve for x.

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