SOLUTION: The five tyres of a car(4 road tyres and the spare) were each used equally on a car which had travelled 20000 km. The number of kms of use of each tyre was? a. 4000 b. 5000 c.

Question 949805: The five tyres of a car(4 road tyres and the spare) were each used equally on a car which had travelled 20000 km. The number of kms of use of each tyre was?
a. 4000
b. 5000
c. 16000
d. 20000

Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Using 4 tires at a time over 20000km there were 4 tires*20000km=80000 "tire-km"
Spreading this over 5 tires, 80000 tire-km/5 tires=16000 km ANSWER Each tire was used for 16000 km. Answer C is correct.
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