Question

Shaniyah drives a truck for a living. While out on the road delivering fruit to a grocery store, she stops to fill up the gas tank. She puts 102.85 gallons of gas in the truck. If the tank holds 120 gallons of gas, how much gas was remaining in the tank before she filled it up?(1 point)
Responses

Answer 1

To find out how much gas was remaining in the tank before Shaniyah filled it up, subtract the amount of gas she put in the truck from the tank's total capacity.

Remaining gas = tank capacity - gas put in
Remaining gas = 120 gallons - 102.85 gallons

Remaining gas = 17.15 gallons.