SOLUTION: a particular hybrid car travels approximately 205 miles on 5 gallons gas. find the amount of gas required for a 574 mi trip
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Question 483346: a particular hybrid car travels approximately 205 miles on 5 gallons gas. find the amount of gas required for a 574 mi trip
Answer by rosey51235(30) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is easy, all you need is to set up a proportion. you set up the units so that they look like a fraction, so long as miles and gallons of gas are ALWAYS across from each other.
Use X for now to specify the gas needed for a 574 mile trip. Right now, it will look like this: 5/205 = X/574
Then you need to cross multiply, so you have 205X = 2870
Finally, you divide by 205 on both sides to get X alone, and therefore, your answer.
2870 divided by 205 = 14, so X=14.
With this particular car, you would need 14 gallons of gas to accomplish a 574 mile trip.
Hope I helped! :)
-Rosey
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