Hello my Brothers and Sisters, I hope you are doing ok, today we're going to do proportions in Mathematics like we did in elementary school. Ok some people may or may not understand about the what high gas prices are
REALLY doing to people in America:
You can either pick Regular, Plus, or SuperUnleaded, it doesn't matter.
1. What if gas cost $2.92 per gallon:
Create the formula: $2.92 = 1 gallon
If you put $20.00 worth of gas in you car, you would've bought
6.85 gal of gas.
Do the proportion:
2.92 = 1 gallon
20.00 = 6.85 gallon
(the 6.85 is rounded)
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2. Now, what if gas goes up from $2.92 to cost $3.50 per gallon:
Create the formula: $3.50 = 1 gallon
If you put $20.00 worth of gas in your car, you would've bought
5.71 gal of gas.
Do the proportion:
3.50 = 1 gallon
20.00 = 5.71 gallon
(the 5.71 is rounded)
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3. Now, what if gas goes up from $3.50 to cost $4.20 per gallon:
Create the formula: 4.20 = 1 gallon
If you put $20.00 worth of gas in your car, you would've bought
4.76 gal of gas.
Do the proportion:
4.20 = 1 gallon
20.00 = 4.76 gallon
(the 4.76 is rounded)
As you can see, as the price of gas goes up, your gallons of gas goes down.
This causes you to go back to the gas station constantly, buying more and more gas no matter how much money put you in your tank. I hope this helped all of you. Also, everytime gas prices go up, everything goes up.
Also, please let me tell you that President Obama is not responsible for the gas prices going up. As a matter of fact, no U.S. President is responsible for the gas prices going up.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/opinion/verrastro-west-gas-prices/index.html?iref=allsearch
http://grist.org/media/media-produces-laments-public-ignorance-on-gas-prices/
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-gas-prices-newvoices-040712-20120406,0,865621.story
Peace and Love to you all.
