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You and your three friends have decided to go to Mackinaw City for a long weekend (3 days). The four of you are staying at your parents summer cottage for free. As part of your preparations, you want to know how far you will have to drive, so you can estimate how long it will take, and how much you will all have to spend on gas for the trip. We will use Flint (Michigan) as our starting point. Use dimensional analysis and show all work

Part A

1. Determine how many miles it is round trip from Flint to Mackinaw City. Use the Michigan Mileage Chart to calculate the trip __________________

2. Convert the round trip distance from miles to kilometers (round up to the nearest kilometer). __________

3. Your car, loaded down with your three friends and all their luggage, gets 23 miles per gallon of gas. Calculate how many gallons of gas you will need for the round trip. (Round up to the next whole gallon.) __________

4. The average price of gas in Michigan is $2.90 per gallon (mlive.com, April 15, 2019). Calculate how much money you can expect to spend on gas round trip. _________

5. Convert the total number of gallons of gas (round trip) to liters of gas. (Round up to the nearest whole liter.) __________

6. You have $570 Canadian dollars you won on a trip to the casino in Windsor last week. You want to exchange it for American money. Use the following table to determine how much American cash it is worth.__________

US	U.S. dollars per Foreign dollar (Google, 4/19/19)	Foreign dollars per U.S. dollar (Google, 4/19/19)
Canadian dollars	1.3390	0.7468

7. You expect your average speed to be 60 miles per hour on this trip. Determine how many hours of driving it will take for you to get to Mackinaw City one-way? (Round up to the nearest tenth of an hour.) ___________

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