Gas mileage is the number of miles you can drive on a gallon of gasoline. a test of a new car results in 440 miles driven on 20 gallons of gas. how far could you drive on 60 gallons of gas? what is the car’s gas mileage? use ratios and unit rates.

answer:

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step-by-step explanation:

similar triangles are triangles which have the same shape but not the same size. this means their angle measures are equal but their side lengths are not instead they are proportional. to solve, we will set up a proportion and solve.

a proportion is two equal ratios set equal to each other. we form the ratios by finding corresponding sides (sides which match to each other on both triangles by their position). out ratios will be one side of the small triangle over the corresponding side on the big triangle as shown below:

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to solve the proportion, we'll cross multiply by multiplying numerator with denominator across the equal sign.