Sanjay´s car used 8 gallons of gasoline to travel 192 miles. On average , about how many miles per gallon did the car travel?
all these problems can be setup as ratios. what is a ratio, a fraction.
the answer you want is miles per gallon. so the fraction will be
m
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g
input 192 for miles and 8 for gallons
192
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8
then solve the fraction. the top number goes in the box
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8|192
+2440 Simply divide the amount of miles traveled by the amount of gallons consumed.
\( {192miles\over8gallons}=24mpg\)
