SOLUTION: A family has two cars. the first car has a fuel efficiency of 35 mile per gallon of gas and the second has fuel efficiency of 30 miles per gallon of gas. during one particular week

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Question 1168686: A family has two cars. the first car has a fuel efficiency of 35 mile per gallon of gas and the second has fuel efficiency of 30 miles per gallon of gas. during one particular week, the two care went a combined total of 1775 miles, for a total gas consumption of 55 gallon how many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Fuel efficiencey in miles per gallon;
Fuel volume in gallons;
Distance in miles.
                    FUEL EFFIC.     VOL.          DIST.
FIRSTCAR              35             g            35g
SECCAR                30            55-g          30(55-g)
TOTALS                              55            1775

--------solve for g.


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---------------gallons for the first car

--------------gallons for the second car
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