Business

Highbeam

21 January, 06:27

An officer in charge of a large fleet of trucks is trying to calculate her expenditure for next year's operations. A major cost of her fuel purchases. To estimate fuel purchases, the officer needs to know the overall distance the trucks will travel next year, the cost of a gallon of fuel, and the fuel mileage of the trucks. The officer has been given the first two figures (distance estimate and cost of a gallon of fuel). However, because of the increase in cost of a gasoline, the officer has recently converted the trucks to operate on propane. She has measured and recorded the propane mileage (in miles per gallon) for the 50 trucks