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Question 981155: Suppose you can drive a car m miles on g gallons of gasoline. The number of miles you can drive in your car is equal to 30 times the number of gallons of gasoline used. Which direct variation equation represents this represent?
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What varies jointly or inversely with what?

m%2Fg miles per gallon.

m=30%2Ag-------just the words to numbers translation of the second sentence. DIRECT VARIATION, and the direct variation factor is 30.