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GED Math 4.4 Rational Numbers. If Sharang's gas tank holds 25 gallons, then what is the gas mileage of his car?

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Thank you We sneak in then here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by gas tanks Surprisingly vin diesel

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fills his with unleaded Xiao arang filled his car's gas

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tank before a long road trip He drove on the

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highway at an average speed of sixty five miles an

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hour for five hours and then his car ran out

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of gas If sharon's gas tank holds twenty five gallons

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and what is the gas mileage of his car And

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here potentially What on earth is this question asking Well

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we're told that sharon's gas tank was full And then

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he drove for five hours till they ran out of

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gas Know that his tank holds twenty five gallons and

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he drove for sixty five miles an hour are being

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asked to find the miles per gallon of shrinks cars

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So let's put all this info together and hopefully we

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won't be running on empty Well let's start with the

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distance traveled Sarang went six five miles an hour for

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five hours Well if you went sixty five miles in

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one hour then he must have gone five times that

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many miles in five hours so five times sixty five

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hundred twenty five got a mile under twenty and were

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given the number of gallons twenty five So now we

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just have to put it into miles per gallon three

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hundred twenty five miles for every twenty five gallons We

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buy both by twenty five to get thirteen miles per

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gallon on the highway Answers See somebody bought american drang 00:01:27.201 --> [endTime] you may want to check for a week

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