Write in decimal form: 3 cm 7 mm = ? cm
Remember that 1 cm = 10 mm
Which means 1 mm = 1/10 cm = 0.1 cm
So 7 mm = 7/10 cm = 0.7 cm
Therefore, 3 cm 7 mm = 3.7 cm
What is the weight of a cubic meter of water? Express your answer in kilograms?
1 kilogram per cubic decimeter and 1000 cubic decimeters in a cubic meter = 1000 kilograms
A 1.5 inch tall preying mantis will sometimes hold its ground and attempt to fight a person who is 6 feet tall. If a person who is 6 feet tall is engaged in a battle with an animal that was proportionally as tall as the person is to the preying mantis, how tall would the animal be?
In terms of...
Use the information below to determine the weight of 500 gallons of water.
a) There are 1.057 quarts in a liter and 4 quarts in a gallon
b) A cubic decimeter of water is a liter of water
c) A cubic decimeter of water weighs one kilogram
d) There are 2.2 pounds in a kilogram
500 gallons = 2000...
A student was trying to determine a formula for changing speeds that are written in feet per second into miles per hour. If a sprinter runs at a speed of n feet per second, what is her speed in miles per hour?
3600 seconds per hour = 3600n feet per hour
5280 feet per mile so we have:
3600n...
If a snail crawled n millimeters, how many kilometers did it travel?
1 millimeter = 1/1000 of a meter
1 meter = 1/1000 of a kilometer
1/1000 * 1/1000 = 0.000001
So our kilometers value is
0.000001n
Joe talked for n seconds. How many hours did Joe talk?
1 hour = 60 minutes * 6o seconds per minute = 3600 seconds
So 1 second = 1/3600 hours
Joe spoke n/3600 hours