1) Check out this article:http://www.bts.gov/publications/omnistats/volume_03_issue_04/html/entire.html2) Let's say you are an "average" American based on that article. How many total miles are spent driving to work in one week (remember you drive TO and FROM work each day)?3) Now, if you are like a typical American, you are doing more driving than just to work and back. In an average week, I drive around 350 miles per week! Use this equation, 350/mpg x P = T (mpg = whatever your car's mpg is, P = local gas price, T = total cost) to find out how much you will spend on gas in one week. Bonus - could you write an equation to find out how much you spend on gas in one month?
In one week the average american travels 15 miles one way to work and it takes on average 26 minutes. If I worked every day of the week I would travel 210 miles. In order to solve this problem I used an equation. If m=miles and d=days at work for that week than the equation is 15 x 2 x d= total miles traveled in one week. I plugged in the numbers and came up with 15 x 2 x 7=210. Next, to figure out how much money I would spend on gas I would again use an equation. Normally, I would drive abuot 350 miles a week total for other stuff not just work so I will use the equation 350/mpg x P = T when P=local gas price and T=total cost of gas for one week.
I will get the answer of 80.15. It will cost me 80 dollars and 15 cents for gas each week
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Very good. $80 is a lot of money though.
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