Evan's car gets approximately 23 miles per gallon. How many feet can he drive with 1 pint of gas?

1 Answer
Dec 9, 2017

#15,180"ft"#

Explanation:

From the question we know that for every 23 miles drove Evan's car uses 1 gallon of gas. Let's first figure out how many feet per gallon Evan's car gets.

#1# mile #= 5280# ft

#((23"miles")/1)*((5280 "ft")/(1" mile")) rarr 121,440"ft"# miles will cancel out leaving us with feet

So for every gallon of gas Evan's car will go #121,440"ft"#, knowing this we can set up a proportion of ft over gallons now converting gallons to pints yielding

assuming 1 US gal = 4 US qts and 1 US qts = 2 US pts

#((121,440"ft")/(1"gal")) * ((1"gal")/(4"qts")) * ((1"qts")/(2"pts")) rarr 15,180("ft"/"pt")#