Question

Sathish is going on a 2000-kilometer road trip with two friends. The car consumes 66 liters of gas for every 100100 kilometers, and gas costs \$1.20$1.20 per liter. If Sathish and his two friends want to split the cost evenly, how much should they each pay? \$

Answer 1

Answer:

Each will pay $528

Explanation:

First, we need to get the total amount of gas that the car will consume.

We are given that the car consumes 66 liters for every 100 km, therefore, we can get the amount consumed in 2000 km using cross multiplication as follows:

66 liters ..........................> 100 km

?? liters ...........................> 2000 km

Number of liters = $\frac{2000*66}{100}=1320$ liters of gas

Second, we need to get the total cost of gas:

We are given that 1 liter of gas costs $1.2, therefore:

Total cost = 1320 * 1.2 = $1584

Finally, we can get the amount that each would pay as follows:

We know that the cost will be split evenly among the three friends

Therefore:

amount paid by each = $\frac{1584}{3}$ = $528

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