document.write( "Question 739710: Omar owns a pickup truck & a moped he can afford 12gal of gas to be split between the two. His truck gets 20mpg & with the fuel currently in the tank, can hold at most an additional 10gals. His moped gets 100mpg & can hold at most 3gals of gas. How many gallons if gas should each vehicle us if he wants to travel as far as possible on the 12gal of gas? What is the max number of miles can he travel? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #451333 by richwmiller(17219)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! I am going to assume to accomplish this feat he will take the moped in the truck and then leave the truck behind. What he will do with a truck stuck 200 miles from the gas station I don't know. \n" ); document.write( "Another way to look at it is that he must get back to the gas station so he can only drive till the gas is half gone. \n" ); document.write( "fill the moped with 3 gallons and add 9 gallons to the truck. \r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "we don't really know how much gas the truck had to begin with so the problem cannot be solved. \n" ); document.write( "how will he measure the use of 9 gallons added to the truck? it can't be done exactly. \n" ); document.write( "anyways he goes 4.5*20+ 1.5*100 so that he can get back to the gas station. \n" ); document.write( "double that if he abandons the truck and moped when they run out of gas. \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |