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Kate is going on a long distance car trip. She begins with 16 gallons of gas in her car and her car burns 3 gallons of gas each hour. If she ends her road trip with 1 gallon of gas left in the tank, how many hours was she driving

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Answer:

  5 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

Starting with 16 gallons and ending with 1 gallon means that Kate has used 15 gallons of gas. Burning 3 gallons per hour means her travel time was ...

  (15 gal)/(3 gal/h) = 5 h

Kate was driving for 5 hours.

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