the jenkins started their trip with a full tank of gas and 48,961 miles on their car.They stopped and filled the gas tank seven hours later with 14.0 gallons of gas.At that time the car total mileage was 49,381. The jenkins car traveled an average of how many miles per gallon during the first seven hours of the trip?

Compute the number of miles driven from the odometer readings (580), and divide by 14 gallons.