Unit Conversions - More Practice Problems
- My back yard is a 50.-foot by 100.-foot rectangle. According to local sources,
we get about 9.5 inches of rain per year in San Diego. How many gallons of
rain would fall on my yard in a year? Answer
- A UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter has two General Electric engines, each of
which emits 12.75 pounds of NOx (oxides of nitrogen) per hour. If a Black
Hawk flies a 35-minute mission through San Diego, how many tons of NOx would
it emit into the atmosphere? Answer
- Translate the Tollhouse cookie recipe into metric units. (Don't worry too
much about sig figs on this one. But you may have to look up a couple of new
conversion factors.)
3/4 cup brown sugar (convert to milliliters)
3/4 cup sugar (convert to milliliters)
1 teaspoon vanilla (convert to milliliters)
1 cup butter or margarine (convert to milliliters)
2 eggs (convert to grams*)
2 cups flour (convert to milliliters)
1 teaspoon baking soda (convert to milliliters)
12 ounces of chocolate chips (convert to grams)
* - Assume each egg weighs 3.0 ounces Answer
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You've just used 19.4 gallons of high-gloss red enamel to paint your old
BMW. If the VOC (volatile organic compound) content of the enamel is 483
grams of VOC per liter of paint, how many tons of VOC did you just emit
into the atmosphere? Answer
- What is the mass, in kilograms, of a 10.0-liter sample of magnesium? The
density of magnesium is 108.57 pounds per cubic foot. Answer
- What was the population density, in persons per acre, of the Republic of
India in 1991? According to my World Almanac, India had 866 million people
and a land area of 1,266,595 square miles in 1991. What is the density in
persons per square foot? Answer
Go Back to the first set of Practice Problems
for unit conversions.
