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If gas is $3.29 and the car gets 20 miles per gallon, how do you figure how much money will be spent on gas..?

for a 9 hour trip?

I'm sure I'm making this more difficult than it has to be..

Thank You!!

Update:

~600 Miles

Update 2:

Oh my gosh, math is by far not my strong point.

If it's like 70mph..?

Anything Else?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    We have insufficient information. We need the speed.

    Let speed = v

    Distance = 9v miles

    Gallons = 9v/20 gallons

    Cost = $(9v/20) * 3.29

  • 10 years ago

    Yeah it has to do with miles and not hours driven.

    I'll assume you're going about 70 mph or so, and going to take a few stops for food/gas. So about 650 miles?

    So you'd do $3.29 (dollars/gallon) x 650 miles / 20 (miles/gallon)

    If you do the math, you'll notice that both 'miles' terms cancel out because of the fraction, and the 'gallon' terms cancel out, so your answer will be in dollars (it's a way of making sure you set everything up correctly!)

    So that gives you 2138.5/20, or $107. Note that if you're going there and back it will be double.

    And I'm kinda jealous you have $3.29 gas....

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    You are making it impossible since the gas price changes by location and you are not stating how many miles your trip is.

  • 10 years ago

    Rather you supply the amount of miles to travel rather than the time of driving.

  • Ramon
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    the consume of gas also depends on the speed of the car and the time that you change the speed (aceleration and brake)

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