SOLUTION: Car travels 70.5 miles on 3gal of gas. Find the distance that the car travel on 14 gal of gas

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Question 696042: Car travels 70.5 miles on 3gal of gas. Find the distance that the car travel on 14 gal of gas
Answer by unlockmath(1688) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hello,
Let's use proportions for this problem.
70.5/3 = x/14
Cross multiply:
3x = 987
Divide by 3:
329 miles
Make sense?
RJ
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