Question

You are running a fuel economy study. One of the cars you find is blue. It can travel 45 1/2miles on 1 and 1/4 gallons of gasoline. Another car is red. It can travel 21 3/5 miles on 4/5 gallon of gasoline. What is the unit rate for miles per gallon for each car? Which car could travel the greater distance on 1 gallon of gasoline? If you get it right I’ll follow thank and give you 5 stars

Answer 1

Answer:

Blue car : 90

Red car : 15.75

Step-by-step explanation:

Given :

• Blue car : Travel 45 1/2 miles on 1 1/4 gallons

• Red car : Travel 21 3/5 miles on 4/5 gallons

In this question we want to5now unit rate for miles per hour and to do it we have to divide the miles the travel by the gallons each car uses :

• Blue car :

$= \frac{45 \times \frac{1}{2} }{1 \times \frac{1}{4} }$

$= 90 \: miles \: per \: gallon$

• Red car :

$= \frac{21 \times \frac{3}{5} }{ \frac{4}{5} }$

$= 15.75 \: miles \: per \: gallon$

----> The blue car travels mor distance with one gallon of gasoline..

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Answer 2

Answer:

blue car : 90

red car : 15.75