Your car gets 19.7 miles per gallon (mpg) on a trip of 547 miles. How many gallons of gasoline did you use on the trip?

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Your car gets 19.7 miles per gallon (mpg) on a trip of 547 miles. How many gallons of gasoline did you use on the trip?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-12T23:59:19

Approximately 27 or 28 gallons of gasoline.

Explanation:

$19.7$ $19.7$ miles per gallon means for every $19.7$ $19.7$ miles travelled, your car uses $1$ $1$ gallon of gasoline. So calculating the number of gallons used during a $547$ $547$ mile trip is done by division.

$\frac{547}{19.7}$ $547/19.7$ $=$ $=$ $27.7664974619$ $27.7664974619$

$27.7664974619$ $27.7664974619$ is nearly $28$ $28$ gallons.

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Your car gets 19.7 miles per gallon (mpg) on a trip of 547 miles. How many gallons of gasoline did you use on the trip?

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