Question 614419: Please help me solve this word problem: a car travels 225 miles on 9 gallons of gas. How far can the car travel on 15 gallons of gas? Answer by Charles1947(18) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The car is using gas at a rate of 9 gallons for 225 miles.
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to find out how many miles for one gallon divide 225 by 9 and we get 25.
So the rate is 25 miles for each gallon or 25 mpg.
If we have 15 gallons how many miles can we travel?
Multiply 15x25 and we get 375
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