You are running a fuel economy study. One of the cars you find is blue. It can travel 44 1/2 gallons of gasoline. Another car is red. It can travel 25 3/5 on 4/5 gallons of gasoline. What is the unit rate for miles per gallon for each car? Which car could travel the greater distance on 1 gallon of gasoline?

Question:

You are running a fuel economy study. One of the cars you find is blue. It can travel miles on gallons of gasoline.

Another car is red. It can travel on gallon of gasoline.

What is the unit rate for miles per gallon for each car?

Which car could travel the greater distance on 1 gallon of gasoline?

(a)

(b)

The blue car will travel faster

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Blue Car:

Red Car

Solving (a):

This is solved by dividing the distance travelled by the amount of gasoline.

i.e.

Blue Car:

Red Car:

(b)

In (a), we have:

--- Blue Car

--- Red Car

By comparison:

The rate of the blue car is greater than that of the red

Hence, the blue car will travel faster

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