Question

you are going on a 1940 mile trip in your car gets about 28 miles per gallon gas prices along your route average $2.95 per gallon calculate the cost of the trip round final answer to the nearest cent

Answer 1

As a first step we are going to determine how many gallons we need to complete the trip:

$\frac{\text{distance}}{\text{miles per gallon}}=\#gallons\text{ n}eeded$$\frac{1940}{28}=69.29$

Rounding, we need 69.3 gallons of gas.

Then, we can calculate the total price of the trip by multiplicating the average price with #gallons needed:

$69.3\cdot2.95=204.435$

Rounding to the nearest cent, the cost of the trip would be $204.44