Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (3rd Edition)
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Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
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- 6. In 1978, cars that got about 40 miles per gallon were readily available. If the average fuel economy of all cars sold since then was 40 miles per gallon (instead of the lower average mileage of the cars that were actually sold), how many billions of gallons of gas would have been saved in the United States since 1978?
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