Six plus one conversion problems (skills assessment)
1. How many seconds are there in a standard year (365 days)? Express in standard and scientific notation.
2. You find a $20 bill on the ground, purchase gasoline at $5 a gallon, and drive a 40 mile per gallon (mpg) car. How far
(distance in miles) can your "lucky find" get you?
3. Calculate the number of cubic inches in a 1250 sq-ft building with 8.00 ft ceilings.
4. Convert 60. miles per hour (mph) into feet per second (fps). One mile is 5,280 ft.
5. A swimming pool is 25 yards long, 50. ft wide, and 84 inches deep. Calculate the volume in cubic feet, and in gallons
(one cubic foot is ~ 7.5 gallons).
6. The maximum recommended dosage of Tylenol is 3,000 mg per day. If two 250 mg tablets represent a typical dose,
how many hours apart are the doses?
Bonus - Atmospheric pressure is 14.7 pounds per sq-inch. What is the weight of the atmosphere in metric tons? Earth is
~ 8,000 miles in diameter. Area of a sphere is 4πr^2. A metric ton is 1,000 kilograms.
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