SOLUTION: a car travels at the rate of 45 miles per hour and averages 25 miles per gallon of gasoline. what is the number of gallons that will be used in 4 hours of traveling at 45 miles per

Question 311037: a car travels at the rate of 45 miles per hour and averages 25 miles per gallon of gasoline. what is the number of gallons that will be used in 4 hours of traveling at 45 miles per hour?
Answer by texttutoring(324) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At 45 miles per hour, the car will travel 45*4=180 miles in 4 hours.

If it gets 25 miles per gallon, then we can just divide 180/25 to find the number of gallons it will use.

180 miles / 25 miles per gallon = 7.2 gallons
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