How does traveling by car involve math?

Answer 1

( This looks like someone's homework question, but I'll bite)

I many ways.

It can involve everything from using calculus to determine instantaneous velocity (speed) at any given moment on a long highway trip with a few stops and many other variations along the way, or it can be as simple as calculating the average speed of the vehicle, bu simple division (Rate = Distance / Time). But I mainly use math to calculate fuel economy, by writing down gallons pumped at gas station and miles traveled on odometer. Over the course of several fuelings, the errors average out, whether or not the tank is filled each time, and it doesn't even require integral calculus (but using it helps).