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Pbs: The Lowdown: Functional Relationships Between Quantities: Calculating Fuel Consumption Unit PlanPbs: The Lowdown: Functional Relationships Between Quantities: Calculating Fuel Consumption Unit Plan
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Pbs: The Lowdown: Functional Relationships Between Quantities: Calculating Fuel Consumption

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In these interactive visualizations, explore the relationship between calculating miles per gallon (mpg) to gallons per mile in fuel use for vehicles. Most drivers think gas usage falls linearly (in a straight line) as mpg increases. But the actual relationship between the two is curved: one additional mpg has significantly greater impact in the gas consumption of an inefficient vehicle than it does in a more efficient vehicle.

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functions, linear functions

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nonlinear functions, calculating fuel consumption, pbs, the lowdown: functional relationships between quantities
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6th - 8th
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Math
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For Administrator Use
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1510L

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