SOLUTION: You are in city A and need to drive to City B and then on to City C for business. You then need to drive back to city A. You will rent a new car in each city. The distance from

Question 1141980: You are in city A and need to drive to City B and then on to City C for business. You then need to drive back to city A. You will rent a new car in each city. The distance from A to B is 250 miles, from B to C is 175 miles and from A to C is 320 miles. You must start at A and go the shortest route next to B then to C and then back to A The car rented in City A get 10 km per liter of fuel. The car rented in City B gets 18 km per liter and the car rented in city C 24 km per liter. Gas costs $ 4.25 US per gal. You drive From City A to City B at an average speed of 120 km per hr. You drive from City B to City C at an average speed of 100 km per hr. You drive from City C to City A at an average speed of 140 km per hr. The exchange rate is 0.85 Euro per Dollar US.
Suppose that while you are in City B you find out that you do not need to go to city C and decide to keep your initial car and drive back to City A. How much will this trip cost for gas in euros?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is 250 miles each way or 500 miles * 1.6093 km/mile is 804.65 km
Divide that by 10 km/l, and that is 80.465 liters
$4.25/gal *1 gal/3.79 liter is $1.123/liter or 0.955 euros/liter
multiply that by 80.465 liters and that is 76.81 euros.
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