Question

A car averages 27 miles per gallon. If gas costs $4.04 per gallon, which of the following is closest to how much the gas would cost for this car to travel 2,727 typical miles?

Answer 1

in my opinion it is best to set this up in an equation or write it out on paper in steps. I will show you both methods.

Answer 2

To set it up in steps here is what you do.

First you read the question and write down any important information!
so for this particular question the important information is:

Answer 3

Second you need to look at the question again and find out what It is asking you to find. In this question it is asking you to find how much it would cost to travel 2,727 miles in a car that runs 27 miles for each gallon of gasoline there is in the tank.

Answer 4

Now here is where an equation will be helpful!

The way you set up this equation is actually pretty simple!

Since you are trying to find how many gallons it takes to go a certain distance you need to divide. you will divide 2,727 by 27

In an equation that would look like this \[\frac{ 2727 }{ 27 }\]

Answer 5

The forth step is to take what you got from dividing which is

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