If a fleet on n taxis uses g gallons of gasoline every 3 days, how many gallons will be used by four taxis every 8 days?

Question

Hello, please provide steps on how to do this problem! I appreciate it.

Answer 1

What you want to determine is the gas use per taxi per day. From the info given, we have

 

g gallons per n taxis per 3 days

 

Thus our basic measure is g/3n for a single taxi after one day. Once we have that, you only need multiply by the larger numbers involved, in this case 4 taxis over 8 days. So the consumption would be

 

32g/3n gallons