U.10 Engineering Overview

Day 06 - Review

Below are the same problems from our previous class. Finish them by the end of the bell, and make sure you check with your neighbors to ensure that you are doing this correctly.

  1. Convert 3596 grams into pounds.
  2. Convert 237 grams into ounces.
  3. A beaker contains 588 mL of water. What is the volume in quarts?
  4. How many pounds are there in 5.21x10−3 kg?
  5. What is 7.66 x 10-2 kL in dL?
  6. What is 0.0038 gallons in cL?
  7. A box measures 3.12 ft in length, 0.0455 yd in width and 7.87 inches in height. What is its volume in cubic centimeters?
  8. A block occupies 0.2587 ft3. What is its volume in cm3?
  9. If you are going 55 mph, what is your speed in m per second?
  10. If the density of an object is 2.87 x 10−4 lbs/cubic inch, what is its density in g/mL?
  11. A baby born in the US weighs 3.295 kg according to the scale in the birthing room. Convert this to pounds and ounces so you can tell the grandparents how much the baby weighed.
  12. A child requires a 5 ml dose of medicine each day. How many days would a gallon of this medicine last?
  13. The moon is 384,403 km from the earth. Estimate how many quarters laid end to end it would take to reach the moon if a quarter has a diameter of 2.3 cm.
  14. How many years old are you if you have lived 1 billion seconds?
  15. 1 milliliter of ink can print 50 pages of text. If you had 100 gallons of ink then how many pages could you print?
  16. A clerk can sort 375 sheets per hour. If there are 225 sheets in an inch, how long will it take the clerk to file 125 inches of loose sheets?

table of unit conversions