A Car travels 840 km on 70 litres of Petrol

Question

A car travels 840km on 72 litres of petrol. The fuel consumption of the car in L/100 km, rounded to 2 decimal places is?

Answer 1

Hey Zoe!

In order to find the solution to this question, we can first set up the proportional relationship between distance traveled and litres consumed. If we let the number of litres consumed per 100 km be x, then we can write

72 L / 840 km = x L / 100 km

Now, all we have to do is cross multiply and divide to solve for x

x = (100 km * 72 L) / 840 km = 8.57 L

So, the fuel consumption of the car is 8.57 L/100km.

Answer 2

fuel consumption = 70/8.4 L/100 km...you do the arithmetic!