SOLUTION: Suppose your car averages 30 miles per gallon on the highway if your average speed is 60 miles per hour and it averages 26 miles per gallon on the highway if your average speed is

Question 937589: Suppose your car averages 30 miles per gallon on the highway if your average speed is 60 miles per hour and it averages 26 miles per gallon on the highway if your average speed is 75 miles per hour. (See Problem #76, Section 2A of the text for a similar problem.)
a) What is the driving time for a 1500-mile trip if you drive at an average speed of 60 miles per hour and what is the driving time at 75 miles per hour?

Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can answer the question without getting
into the fuel efficiency of your car.
(a)
hrs
hrs
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If you wanted to, you could plot mi/gallon
and speed with the given data and plug in
the values 60 mi/hr and 75 mi/hr in
order to find mi/gallon at each speed

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