You rent a car in Europe, but the speedometer is in kilometers and the tank is in liters. You travel 640 kilometers when you decide to fill up.  The tank takes 37.5 liters of petrol.  Is this good mileage compared to the USA?  To find out you will need to convert liters of petrol per distance traveled to miles per gallon.

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You rent a car in Europe, but the speedometer is in kilometers and the tank is in liters. You travel 640 kilometers when you decide to fill up.  The tank takes 37.5 liters of petrol.  Is this good mileage compared to the USA?  To find out you will need to convert liters of petrol per distance traveled to miles per gallon.

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