Brittany's car gets 31 miles per gallon. Brittany's car used 24 gallons of gas on a round trip to see the ocean. How far away from Brittany's home is the ocean? Round answer to the nearest 10th. Ignore any side travel that Brittany might do.

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Answer:

  372 miles

Step-by-step explanation:

The appropriate relation is ...

  miles = (miles/gallon) × gallons

  distance = (31 mi/gal)×(24 gal) = 744 mi

Brittany drove 744 miles to see the ocean. Since this was her round trip distance, the one-way distance is ...

  744 mi/2 = 372 miles