How do I do tgis fractions math problem?
During a 258 mile trip, a car used 10 3/4 gallons of gas. How many miles would we expect the ccar to travel on 1 gallon of gas?
Probably bait since it's really easy math, but miles per gallon= miles travelled divided by gallons of gas used.
Therefore its just 258/10.75 (3/4=.75) which comes out to 24 miles for 1 gallon of gas
>>17176373
How do I divide that though? It has a decimal...
>>17176496
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>>17176502
So why are you here then youngin?
>>17176507
Oh wow good one Anon, very original. Have fun with your third grade level math problem.
>>17176513
And somehow, I'm the bad guy
>>17176346
258 divided by 10.75
To get rid of the decimal, multiply both sides by 100 (It comes out the same)
25800 divided by 1075 =
>>17176757
The basic rule there, just to make it clear, is that if you do the same thing to both numbers, the relationship remains the same. If 1 is 1/2 of 2, then multiply both sides by 5 and 5 is still 1/2 of 10 (It only works with multiplication and division, though. If you add, say, 5 to each number, the ratio is not the same - 1+5 is not half of 2+5)
