Your new car can go 400 miles on eight gallons of gas. How far can the car go with only one gallon?

This is a ratio word problem. First, find the ratio of the number of miles the car can travel, to the number of gallons of gas the car has in the tank: 400/8. Then, write the ratio in its simplest form: 50/1. You can find this ratio by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 8.

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