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Ms. O'Malley's cousin lives 1,650 miles away. Ms. O'Malley won a gift card for 100 gallons of gas. If her car can travel 35 miles on each gallon, can she drive round trip to see her cousin on the free gas? Explain how you know.

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100 times 35=3500  
She can go 3500 miles on the free gas.  
She can go round trip to see her cousin on free gas because 1650+1650 is less than 3500

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She can drive to see her cousin using the free gas as the amount of gas required for the round trip is less than 100 gallons

Distance to be covered = 1650 miles

Amount of gas = 100 gallons

Miles per gallon of car = 35 miles per gallon

The total distance of the round trip = 1650 × 2 = 3300 miles

The amount of gas needed to cover 3300 miles :

  • Round trip distance / miles per gallon

  • 3300 / 35 = 94.285 gallons of gas

Since, the gallon of gas won is greater than the gas required to cover the round trip distance, then she can drive to see her cousin

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