If you enter Interstate 40 at mile marker 23 in Sayre, Oklahoma, how far would you need to travel to reach mile marker 125 in El Reno, Oklahoma? After reaching El Reno, you might worry that your vehicle is running low on fuel. You know that your vehicle can travel 32 miles per gallon (miles/gallon). Write an inequality that shows the mile markers (m) that you can reach from El Reno, travelling in either direction, when g is the amount of fuel, in gallons, in your vehicle. Explain what this means.

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El Reno is 125-40 = 85 mi from Sayre.

mileage is mi/gal

You want miles, knowing gallon

mi = mi/gal * gal = 32g mi

Yiu are now at m 125, so with g gal, you can reach m 125 ± 32g