A car travels 400 km and uses 50 litres of petrol. How many km does it travel per litre?

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To find out how many km the car travels per litre, we need to divide the total distance traveled by the total amount of petrol used.

Identify the given values.
Total distance traveled = $400 \text{ km}$
Total petrol used = $50 \text{ litres}$
Calculate the distance per litre.
$\text{Distance per litre} = \frac{\text{Total distance}}{\text{Total petrol used}}$ $\text{Distance per litre} = \frac{400 \text{ km}}{50 \text{ litres}}$
Perform the division.
$\text{Distance per litre} = 8 \text{ km/litre}$
The car travels $8 \text{ km/litre}$ .

Comparing this with the given options:
(A) $8 \text{ km/litre}$
(B) $1/8 \text{ km/litre}$
(C) $80 \text{ km/litre}$
(D) $0.8 \text{ km/litre}$

The correct option is (A).

The final answer is $\boxed{\text{A. } 8 \text{ km/litre}}$ .

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