Question

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

Answer 1

`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")`