Given:
At 9 gallons, it can travel 396 miles.
Find: At one gallon, it can travel ___ miles.
Solution:
First, let's fill in the number line with the information we have.
Then, to find the missing value ?, let's do cross multiplication.
[tex]\begin{gathered} ?\times9=1\times396 \\ ?\times9=396 \end{gathered}[/tex]
Then, divide both sides of the equation by 9.
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{?\times9}{9}=\frac{396}{9} \\ ?=44 \end{gathered}[/tex]
Therefore, on 1 gallon of gas, the car can travel 44 miles.
