Question

A family has two cars. the first car has a fuel efficiency of 20 miles per gallon of gas and the second has a fuel efficiency of 35 miles per gallon of gas. during one particular week, the two cars went a combined total of 1700 miles, for a total gas consumption of 55 gallons. how many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week

Answer 1

The first car has a fuel efficiency of 35 miles per gallon of gas and the second has a fuel efficiency of 40 miles per gallon of gas. ... During one particular week, the two cars went a combined total of 1850 miles, for a total gas ... y = 20. Car 1 consumes 30 gallons of gas. Car 2 consumes 20gallons of gas.