Answer
The car can get around $27.75$ miles per gallon.
Work Step by Step
Divide the total distance by the total capacity of the tank using long division.
Adjust the divisor to $1712$ and the dividend to $47500$ to obtain:
Elementary Technical Mathematics
by Nelson, Robert; Eren, Dale;
Published by
Brooks Cole
ISBN 10:
1285199197
ISBN 13:
978-1-28519-919-1
Chapter 1 - Section 1.12 - Multiplication and Division of Decimal Fractions - Exercises - Page 72: 23
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