Question

You are running a fuel economy study. One of the cars you find is blue. It can travel 39 1/2 miles on 1 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?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. 28.4 miles per gallon
2. 34 miles per gallon
3. The red car

Step-by-step explanation:

→ (blue car):

=>Travels 35 1/2 miles on 11/4

gallons of gasoline.

→(red car):

=>Travels 27 1/5 miles on 4/5

gallons of gasoline.