's car can go miles on gallons of gas. During a drive last weekend, used of gas. How far did drive? Use pencil and paper. Explain how the problem changes if you were given the distance drove last weekend instead of how much gas used. PLEASE HELPP!!!

Given :

Writing lan's car can go 296 miles on 8 gallons of gas.

During a drive last weekend, lan used

7 gallons of gas.

To find :-

How far did he drive?

Solution :-

According to Question ,

Car can go 296 mi on 8 gallons of gas.

Using Unitary Method ,

On 1 gallon of gas it will go 296/8 mi

On 7 , it will go 296/8*7 = 259 miles

Hence the required answer is 259 miles .

you can first factor out the n to get n(1+5). we know that 1+5 is 6, so we just have 6n.