Questions: Assume regular unleaded fuel costs 2.28 per gallon. A Toyota Corolla uses regular unleaded fuel and gets about 38 miles per gallon. Imagine that a driver of the Corolla drives 16,000 miles each year. How much money will the driver of the Corolla spend on gas in one year? Show your work or explain your work.

Solution Steps

To find out how much money the driver will spend on gas in one year, we need to calculate the total gallons of fuel used and then multiply it by the cost per gallon. First, determine the total gallons of fuel needed by dividing the total miles driven by the miles per gallon. Then, multiply the result by the cost per gallon to find the total cost.

To find the total gallons of fuel used in one year, we divide the total miles driven by the miles per gallon:

\[ \text{gallons used per year} = \frac{\text{miles per year}}{\text{miles per gallon}} = \frac{16000}{38} \approx 421.0526 \]

Next, we calculate the total cost of the fuel by multiplying the total gallons used by the cost per gallon:

\[ \text{total cost} = \text{gallons used per year} \times \text{cost per gallon} = 421.0526 \times 2.28 \approx 960.0 \]

Final Answer