Elementary Technical Mathematics

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1285199197
ISBN 13: 978-1-28519-919-1

Chapter 7 - Section 7.2 - Proportion - Exercises - Page 277: 63

Answer

To travel $820$ miles, we would need $26.4$ gallons of fuel.

Work Step by Step

Let the gallons of fuel required be x. Then: $18$ gal of fuel = $560$ miles. $x$ gal of fuel= $820$ miles Then we get the ratio: $\dfrac{18~g}{560~mi}=\dfrac{x}{820~mi}$ By cross multiplication, we get $(820*18)=(x*560)$ $x=(820*18)/560$ $x=26.4$ gallons. Therefore, to travel 820 miles, we would require 26.4 gallons of fuel.
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