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The price of gasoline at a service station increased from $1.65 per gallon last week to$1.82 per gallon this week. Sally paid $26.40 for gasoline last week at the station. How much more will Sally pay this week at the station for the same amount of gasoline? A.$1.70

B. $2.55 C.$2.64

D. $2.72 E.$2.90

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Re: The price of gasoline at a service station increased from $1.65 per ga [#permalink] ### Show Tags 22 Jun 2018, 22:49 2 Answer is D. Gasoline = 26.40/1.65 = 16 galloons Price difference = (1.82-1.65) =$0.17 per gallon

Price difference for 16 gallons = (0.17*16) = 2.72

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The price of gasoline at a service station increased from $1.65 per ga [#permalink] ### Show Tags 23 Jun 2018, 01:34 2 Bunuel wrote: The price of gasoline at a service station increased from$1.65 per gallon last week to $1.82 per gallon this week. Sally paid$26.40 for gasoline last week at the station. How much more will Sally pay this week at the station for the same amount of gasoline?

A. $1.70 B.$2.55

C. $2.64 D.$2.72

E. $2.90 NEW question from GMAT® Official Guide 2019 (PS13159) Since the price of gasoline goes up from$1.65 to $1.82 from last week to now, the amount that Sally spends on gasoline also goes up by a similar margin. As, 1.65 -> 26.40 | 1.82 -> x(amount Sally spent on gasoline) $$1.65 * x = 26.40 * 1.82$$ ->$$x = 26.40 * \frac{1.82}{1.65} = 29.12$$ Therefore, Sally spends $$29.12 - 26.40 = 2.72$$(Option D) more on gasoline this week. _________________ You've got what it takes, but it will take everything you've got e-GMAT Representative Joined: 04 Jan 2015 Posts: 2201 Re: The price of gasoline at a service station increased from$1.65 per ga  [#permalink]

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Solution

Given:
• The price of gasoline at a service station increased from $1.65 per gallon to$1.82 per gallon
• Sally paid $26.40 for last gasoline last week To find: • What will be the equivalent price Sally have to pay this week, due to price increase Approach and Working: • Increase in price per gallon = $$(1.82 - 1.65) = 0.17$$ Therefore, we can say: • In$1.65 the cost increases $0.17 Or, in$26.40 the cost increases $$\frac{0.17}{1.65} * 26.40 = 2.72$$

Hence, the correct answer is option D.

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Re: The price of gasoline at a service station increased from $1.65 per ga [#permalink] ### Show Tags 27 Jun 2018, 17:05 Bunuel wrote: The price of gasoline at a service station increased from$1.65 per gallon last week to $1.82 per gallon this week. Sally paid$26.40 for gasoline last week at the station. How much more will Sally pay this week at the station for the same amount of gasoline?

A. $1.70 B.$2.55

C. $2.64 D.$2.72

E. $2.90 Since$26.40 bought 26.40/1.65 = 16 gallons last week, and this week she has to pay 1.82 - 1.65 = $0.17 more per gallon, she has to pay 16 x 0.17 =$2.72 more this week for the same amount of gasoline.

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Re: The price of gasoline at a service station increased from $1.65 per ga [#permalink] ### Show Tags 06 Sep 2018, 21:15 JeffTargetTestPrep wrote: Bunuel wrote: The price of gasoline at a service station increased from$1.65 per gallon last week to $1.82 per gallon this week. Sally paid$26.40 for gasoline last week at the station. How much more will Sally pay this week at the station for the same amount of gasoline?

A. $1.70 B.$2.55

C. $2.64 D.$2.72

E. $2.90 Since$26.40 bought 26.40/1.65 = 16 gallons last week, and this week she has to pay 1.82 - 1.65 = $0.17 more per gallon, she has to pay 16 x 0.17 =$2.72 more this week for the same amount of gasoline.

How to easily calculate this 26.40/1.65 = 16?
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Re: The price of gasoline at a service station increased from $1.65 per ga [#permalink] ### Show Tags 10 Sep 2018, 02:29 1 EgmatQuantExpert wrote: Solution Given: • The price of gasoline at a service station increased from$1.65 per gallon to $1.82 per gallon • Sally paid$26.40 for last gasoline last week

To find:
• What will be the equivalent price Sally have to pay this week, due to price increase

Approach and Working:
• Increase in price per gallon = $$(1.82 - 1.65) = 0.17$$

Therefore, we can say:
• In $1.65 the cost increases$0.17
Or, in $26.40 the cost increases $$\frac{0.17}{1.65} * 26.40 = 2.72$$ Hence, the correct answer is option D. Answer: D Gasoline = 26.40/1.65 = 16 galloons 16*1.82 = 29.12 29.12-26.40=2.72 Hello egmat Pyal the problem here is the process i mentioned to solve this question is more natural to me but the problem is it takes lot of calculation i am unable to map out the clean and easy way in any GMAT question as you have done. if you could help me find how to do fewer calculations like your method. i would be really obliged. Thanks _________________ If you like this post, be kind and help me with Kudos! Cheers! Intern Joined: 07 Oct 2018 Posts: 1 The price of gasoline at a service station increased from$1.65 per ga  [#permalink]

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10 Nov 2018, 16:29
The hardest part of the problem is meeting the time constraint.

The in the approach that I used I tried to avoid dividing and multiplying large numbers, as this is one of the things I struggle with.

First find the size of the tank by 26.40/1.65. For this I took both numbers to their prime factorization to get (2^4 x3x5x11)/(3x5x11).
From there everything cancels pretty nicely to leave 2^4 which yields 16; which is the size of the tank.

Then take the size of the tank by the price increase per gallon to get the total cost increase, which is:

16x.17 = 2.72