Reference no: EM131046113
1. Convert from metric to English or from English to metric as indicated.
1 meter = 3.281 feet
100 cm = 1 meter
1 mile = 5280 feet
1km = 1000 meters
a. 45 meters to feet
b. 24 cm into inches
c. 280 feet to meters
d. 50 miles per hour to feet per minute
2. A projectile is shot into space at 60 meters per second.
a. Determine its speed in miles per hour.
b. Determine its speed in kilometers per hour.
3. Tova used to spend 40 minutes per day jogging and covered a distance equivalent to the distance from Rue de Vache to LaPointe 78 times during the year. The distance is 20 miles. What is her speed in miles per hour?
4. If the horse Seabiscuit travels at a constant speed of 40 miles per hour, how many seconds will it take Seabiscuit to run a race of 6 furlongs? (1 furlong = 1/8 mile)
5. Assume that a human heart is capable of beating 2.8 billion times in a lifetime. If a person's heart rate is 72 beats per minute, what is the person's life span in years?
6. Mason and three friends flew his plan 550 miles in 3 hours 40 minutes. He used 9 gallons per hour and the fuel cost him 55.85 per gallon. Find each of the following:
a. gal
b. mi/hr
c. ft/sec
d. dollars/hr
e. mi/gal
f. dollars/passenger
g. cents/mi
7. A manuscript page generally has about 500 words on it. If you read a manuscript page in 1 minute 24 seconds, what is your reading rate in words per minute? What is the number of pages you read per hour?
8. There are 120 students in the dorm. Of those, 66 are going to the formal dance. The same number (66) of students is going out to dinner that evening, including 48 of those going to the dance. How many students are neither going to the dance nor going out to dinner?
9. Be fore doing the ordering for a company barbecue, the president took a poll to find out how many people would eat ribs, hamburgers, and/or corn at the barbecue. She polled everyone in the company who said they would probably attend. This poll revealed that 57 people would eat ribs, 38 would eat corn and 65 would eat hamburgers, 30 would eat ribs and corn, 24 would eat corn and hamburgers, 40 would eat ribs and hamburgers, 19 would eat all three and 7 wouldn't eat any of these three foods.
a. How many people were surveyed?
b. How many people would not eat ribs?
c. How many people would eat ribs but not corn?
d. How many people would eat corn and hamburgers but not ribs?
e. How many people would eat only hamburgers?
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