You put 15 gallons of gasoline in your car. you know that this amount of gasoline will allow you to drive about 450 miles. write and graph an equation to represent each situations.
Below is the equation, hope it helps :)
Let y = distance that you can travel
We know that there are 30 miles per gallon
let x = number of gallons needed
so if initially, we can travel 450 miles, the equation will be:
y = 30x+450
Answer:
The required equation is y=30x.
Step-by-step explanation:
It is given that we can drive 450 miles in 15 gallons of gasoline.
The number of miles covered by a car in 1 gallons of gasoline is
\(\frac{450}{15}=30\)
It means a can cover 30 miles in 1 gallons of gasoline.
Let x be the number of gallons of gasoline and y is distance. So, the required equation is
\(y=30x\)
where, 0 ≤ x ≤ 15 and 0 ≤ y ≤ 450.
The table of values is
x y
0 0
5 150
10 300
15 450
The graph of above equation is shown below.