In February of 2015, the price of gas in the United States was $2.17 per gallon. The price of gas in Italy is 1.64 € per liter.
Who pays more? What would you need to know to solve this problem? Which values are constant? Which values vary?
Problem: In Italy they pay 1.64Euros per liter. What is the equivalent price per gallon in dollars?
Before you continue with this lesson, try to write down step-by-step instructions for your friend to follow to calculate the miles per gallon for the car. This is an algorithm for calculating MPG.
Hint: If you aren't sure how to solve this, try breaking it into steps.
Test your algorithm by walking through all of the steps on paper. Write down some sample numbers and do all of the calculations.
Now look at the next page
Gas Price Problem