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Old 06-20-2008, 01:49 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tasdrouille View Post
You just proved the article is right. Suppose 50 miles. At 50 mpg you use 1 gal and at 100 mpg you use 0.5 gal. Total fuel for the 100 miles trip is 1.5 gal which turns out to be 66.6667 mpg.
Nope, just proved that the poster didn't pay attention in math class :-)

And of course the problem is not realistic: If I get 50 mpg on an uphill in the Insight, I'll get close to infinite mpg on the reverse trip :-)
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