SOLUTION: Your car's gas tank is full and you take a trip. You travel 209 miles, then you fill your gas tank up again and it takes 10.0 gallons. If you designate your change in distance as 2

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Question 490621: Your car's gas tank is full and you take a trip. You travel 209 miles, then you fill your gas tank up again and it takes 10.0 gallons. If you designate your change in distance as 209 miles and your change in gallons as 10.0, what is the average rate of change of gasoline used, measured in gallons per mile?

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Your car's gas tank is full and you take a trip. You travel 209 miles, then you fill your gas tank up again and it takes 10.0 gallons.
If you designate your change in distance as 209 miles and your change in gallons as 10.0, what is the average rate of change of gasoline used, measured in gallons per mile?
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Obviously your mpg is: 209/10 = 20.9 mpg
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They want gal/mi
1%2F20.9 = .04784689 gal to go 1 mi