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A car has 37 litres of petrol in its tank at the start of a journey. It uses petrol at a rate of 6 litres per hour. There are L litres in the tank after t hours. Write a formula for L.

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A car has 37 litres of petrol in its tank at the start of a journey. It uses petrol at a rate of 6 litres per hour. There are L litres in the tank after t hours. Write a formula for L.

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Solution

The formula for L (the amount of petrol left in the tank after t hours) can be written as follows:

L = 37 - 6t

Here's the step-by-step explanation:

  1. The car starts with 37 litres of petrol, so we start with 37 in our formula.

  2. The car uses petrol at a rate of 6 litres per hour. This means that for every hour (t) that passes, the car uses 6 litres of petrol.

  3. To represent this in the formula, we subtract 6t from 37. The 't' represents the number of hours that have passed.

So, after t hours, the car will have L = 37 - 6t litres of petrol left.

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