You and your friends are organizing a trip to Europe. Your plan is to rent a car
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Question
You and your friends are organizing a trip to Europe. Your plan is to rent a car and drive through the major European capitals. By consulting a map you estimate that you will cover a total distance of 5000 m km. Consider the euro-dollar exchange rate given in the introduction and use dimensional analysis to work through these simple problems.1)You select a rental package that includes a car with an average consumption of 6.00 m liters of fuel per 100 m km. Considering that in Europe the average fuel cost is 1.063 m euros/ liter, how much (in US dollars) will you spend in fuel on your trip?
2)how many gallons of fuel would the rental car consume per mile?
Explanation / Answer
2) the rental car consumes 6 liters/100km
6l=6/3.7854=1.585 gallons
100km=100/1.6093 miles=62.14 miles
Therefore consumption=1.585/62.14=0.0255 gallons/mile
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