How do you figure out how much it costs for gas to drive 1750 miles?

Answer 1

First you must know the mpg the vehicle you are driving will average at highway speed. To find that out fill your tank, reset the trip meter to 0 and then drive your car at highway speed for about 300 miles. Stop and fill the tank. Write down the miles you drove as recorded on the tripmeter and divide that figure by the gallons of fuel it took to fill the tank. You now know the mpg the vehicle will get. All you do is divide the mpg of the vehicle into the miles you are going to drive and multiply that figure times the price of fuel. As an example let's say it gets 30 mpg. Take 30 and divide than into 1750 and you get 58.33 gallons of fuel required to travel that distance. If gasoline is $3.50 per gallon then multiply 58.33 times $3.50 and you get $204.15.