document.write( "Question 1168686: A family has two cars. the first car has a fuel efficiency of 35 mile per gallon of gas and the second has fuel efficiency of 30 miles per gallon of gas. during one particular week, the two care went a combined total of 1775 miles, for a total gas consumption of 55 gallon how many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week? \n" ); document.write( "
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Fuel efficiencey in miles per gallon;
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document.write( "                    FUEL EFFIC.     VOL.          DIST.\r\n" );
document.write( "FIRSTCAR              35             g            35g\r\n" );
document.write( "SECCAR                30            55-g          30(55-g)\r\n" );
document.write( "TOTALS                              55            1775\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight_green%2835g%2B30%2855-g%29=1775%29\"--------solve for g.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"7g%2B6%2855-g%29=355\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"g%2B6%2A55=355\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"g=355-6%2A55\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight%28g=25%29\"---------------gallons for the first car\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight%2830%29\"--------------gallons for the second car
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