SOLUTION: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted in 4.9 million barrels of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Each barrel of oil can be processed into about 19 gallons of gasoline. How
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Question 1013162: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted in 4.9 million barrels of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Each barrel of oil can be processed into about 19 gallons of gasoline. How many cars could this have fueled for a year? Assume an average car gets 20 miles to the gallon, and drives about 12,000 miles per year.
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
4.9 million barrels = 19(4900000) = 93.1 million gallons.
Assuming each car goes through 12000/20 = 600 gallons per year, we have
93,100,000 gallons / 600 gallons/car = 155,167 cars
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