Question

A family has two cars. The first car has a fuel efficiency of 40 miles per gallon of gas and the second has a fuel efficiency of 20 miles per gallon of gas. During one particular week, the two cars went a combined total of 1400 miles , for a total gas consumption of 45 gallons. How many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week?

Answer 1

The combined total would be 23.3 or just 23 gallons of gas.