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 \rm km. Consider the euro-dollar exchange rate given in the introduction and use dimensional analysis to work through these simple problems.You select a rental package that includes a car with an average consumption of 6.00 \rm liters of fuel per 100 \rm km. Considering that in Europe the average fuel cost is 1.063 \rm euros/ liter.How many gallons of fuel would the rental car consume per mile?
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You have a lot of numbers and information you don't need. All you have to do is convert 6.00 liters/100 km (which is 16.67 km/liter) to miles per gallon. I assume you know how to do that. There are 3.785 liters in a gallon and 1.609 km in a mile.
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