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Wina drove 282 miles on 10 gallons of gas. At this same rate, how many miles could she drive on 12 gallons of gas?

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User Fdetsch
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Hey there! I'm happy to help!

Let's set this up a proportion (two equal ratios) to find out how many miles Wina can drive on 12 gallons gas.


(miles)/(gallons) =(282)/(10) =(m)/(12)

What do we multiply the bottom 10 by to get to 12? Well, to find out, we can divide 12 by 10 below.

12÷10=1.2

This means that we multiply the numbers in the first fraction by 1.2 to have the same numerator and denominator as the second fraction.

If we multiplied our 10 b y 1.2 to get the denominator in the second fraction, we should be able to multiply 282 by 1.2 to get the numerator in the second fraction!

282×1.2=338.4

If you use 338.4 in this proportion, the ratios will be equal.

Therefore, Wina could drive 338.4 miles on 12 miles of gas at this same rate.

Have a wonderful day!

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