(all 3 answer sets here)

answers to Gisele Glosser's problems

1. A dolphin dives to 24 feet. How many fathoms is this below the surface of the water?
4 fathoms

2. 2. The deepest part of the ocean is the Marianas Trench; its depth is 11.03 km. How many feet is that?
36,399 feet

3. The largest whale measured 33.27 meters in length. How many feet is this?
109.791 ft

4. The average temperature of the oceans is 3.9° C. What is this in Fahrenheit?
39.02 °F

5. The highest tides on planet Earth occur near Wolfville, in Nova Scotia’s Minas Basin. The water level at high tide can be as much as 16 meters higher than at low tide! How many feet is this?
52.8 ft

6. Sunlight only reaches 30 to 120 meters under the waves. Convert this to feet.
99 ft to 396 ft

7. A blue whale can weight up to 280,000 pounds. That’s larger than the largest dinosaur. How many kilograms is that? (Round your answer to the nearest whole kg.)
(answer is wrong on key)

8. Previous studies suggest that the expected global warming from the greenhouse effect could raise sea level approximately 100 centimeters in the next century or two.
What is this in feet? 109.791 ft

9. If all the ice in glaciers and ice sheets melted, the sea level would rise by about 80 meters, or how many feet?
264 ft

10. The longest river is the Nile River, in Egypt, Africa. It is 4,160 miles long and flows northward into the Mediterranean Sea. How long is it in km?
6,656 km

copyright 2001 Gisele Glosser



answers to Donna Young's problems

1.Convert 640 ounces into pints.
640 oz/1 x 1 pt/16 oz
40 pts

2. If 20 shillings equal 1 pound, how many shillings does 1000 pounds equal?
1000 pounds/1 x 20 shillings/1 pound
20,000




answers to Chemistry 192 questions

1. How many seconds are there in 1.2 weeks?

1 week = 7 days
1 day = 24 hours
1 hour = 60 min
1 min = 60 seconds

1.2 weeks • 7 days/1 week • 24 hrs/1 day • 60 min/1 hr • 60 s/1 min = 7.3 x 105 seconds

2. If a recipe calls for 37 grams of sugar, how many pounds does that correspond to?
Given: 37 grams
Want: lbs
Know: 453.59 g = 1 lb

37 g • 1 lb/453.59 g = 8.2 x 10-2 lb



answer to Carolyn's problem

Carolyn & Bernie are going to buy a new car, which they will drive 13,000 miles a year.
They've narrowed their choices down to a Honda Civic or a Dodge Caravan.
The Honda gets 35 miles per gallon.
The Caravan gets 25 miles per gallon.
If gas is $4 per gallon, how much money will they save on gasoline each year driving the Civic?



from ktm guest:

My old chemistry prof called it "factor-label:" You start by figuring out what you want to find out, then lay out all of your ratios and conversion factors, one multiplied by the other (always multiply, invert the relation if you need to), until you can factor out all the unwanted labels (units) in between and leave behind the ones you want. The check is that you shouldn't have any stray units hanging over when you're done.

So your problem becomes:

  dollars   4 dollars   1 gallon   13000 miles
  ------- = --------- * -------- * -----------  
    year     gallon     35 miles      1 year