Question

At a corner gas station, the revenue R varies directly with the number g of gallons of gasoline sold. If the revenue is 19.50 when the number of gallons sold is 5, find a linear equation that relates revenue R to the number g of gallons of gasoline?

Then find the Revenue R when the numbers of gallons of gasoline sold is 8.5.

19.50/5=x/15.5 is that how its started?

Answer 1

`x=$33.15`

Explanation:

You start with `color(blue)19.50/color(red)5=color(red)x/color(blue)8.5`

Here you cross multiply and get:

`5x=19.50*8.5`

`5x=165.75`

`x=165.75/5`

`x=$33.15`