Question

A motorcycle can travel 60 miles per gallon. Approximately how many gallons of fuel will the motorcycle need to travel 40 km?

[1 mile = 1.6 km]

0.04
0.08
0.20
0.42

Answer 1

40 km at 1 mile is 1.6 km and 60 miles to 1 gallon

Answer 2

oh

Answer 3

\[\frac{ 40 ~km }{ 1 }*\frac{ 1~mi }{ 1.6~km }*\frac{ 1~gallon }{ 60~mi } = \]

Answer 4

notice the units km and mi, cancel and you are left with gallons

Answer 5

sooo how many gallons would tht be?

Answer 6

40 / (1.6*60) = 40 / 96 = about 0.41666 or 0.42

Answer 7

ok thank youu!!