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In a family there are two cars. The sum of the average miles per gallon obtained by the two cars in a particular week is 70 . The first car has consumed 30 gallons during that week, and the second has consumed gallons,35 for a total of 2250 miles driven by the two cars combined. What was the average gas mileage obtained by each of the two cars in that week?
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This provides an example of solving a word problem to find mileage of two cars.
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Let the average milegae of first car be x then the average mileage of second car will be (70 - x) as the sum of the average miles per gallon obtained by the two cars in a ...
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