Suppose you want to determine the number of miles you can drive in your car. Your car gets 20 miles per gallon. The number of miles traveled varies directly with the number of gallons of gas the tank holds. Write a direct variation equation that represents this situation... I'm stuck.

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To write a direct variation equation, you need to express the relationship between the two variables in the form y = kx, where y represents the dependent variable (in this case, the number of miles traveled) and x represents the independent variable (in this case, the number of gallons of gas in the tank).

In this scenario, we know that the car gets 20 miles per gallon. This means that for every gallon of gas, the car can travel 20 miles.

So, the equation would be:

y = 20x

In this equation, y represents the number of miles traveled, and x represents the number of gallons of gas in the tank. The constant of variation (k) is 20, indicating that for each gallon of gas, the car can travel 20 miles.