SOLUTION: a toyota corolla gets approximately 35mpg on the highway and 27 mpg in the city you drove 412 miles on a full tank of gas (13.2 gallons) approimately how many miles were driven in

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Question 144294: a toyota corolla gets approximately 35mpg on the highway and 27 mpg in the city you drove 412 miles on a full tank of gas (13.2 gallons) approimately how many miles were driven in the city and on the highway. i need to know how to pull out the linier equation to do substitution addition or elimination with it
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a toyota corolla gets approximately 35mpg on the highway and 27 mpg in the city you drove 412 miles on a full tank of gas (13.2 gallons) approimately how many miles were driven in the city and on the highway. i need to know how to pull out the linear equation to do substitution addition or elimination with it
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Let # of miles at 35 mpg be "x" : Let # of miles at 27 mpg be "y".
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Distance equation: x + y = 412
Gas use equation: x/35 + y/27 = 13.2
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I guess you can take it from there.
Cheers,
Stan H.