Question

Your car gets 25 mi/gal around town and 30 mi/gal on the highway.

a. If 50% of the miles you drive are on the highway and 50% are around town, what
is your overall average miles per gallon?
b. If 60% of the miles you drive are on the highway and 40% are around town, what
is your overall average miles per gallon?

need work shown if possible im really confused

Answer 1

Ok so what it is asking on part A is if your driving 50% on the highway which is 30 miles a gallon and 50% on around the town which is 25 miles a gallon then how many miles a gallon are you getting and the answer for that you need to first find what kind of problem it is and in this case you are working with percents so what you first want to do is multiply 50% to both 30 and 25 which will be 15 and 12.5 then add those together to get you answer now do the same for part B but instead of 50% it will be 60% and 40%.

Explanation:

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