1) You are going on a road trip with friends in a care that can travel 43km per gallon.
a) How many gallons of gas will it take you to travel 750 miles to NYC?
b) If gas costs an average of $2.40 per gallon during your trip, what is the total cost of gas for this trip?
2) You are in Germany on vacation. The exchange rate is 1Euro=1.2 U.S Dollars. You find a cab that will take you 1km for 0.56 Euros. Find the distance in ,iles that you could travel with this cab for $20.
3) You are driving a car at a speed of 38.0 m/s down a highway on the way to the lake.
a) What is the speed in km per minute?
b) Are you exceeding the posted 70 mile per hour speed limit? show your work
4) If water is coming out of a hose at a rate such that it fills up a five gallon contaniner in 53 seconds, find the time it would take this hose to fill up a pool of 32 cubic meters. Would it take more than one day to fill the pool?
5) The speed of light c is 3.00x10^8 meters per second (m/s)
a) What is this speed expressed in inches per nanosecond?
b) If sunlight takes 8.33 mintues to travel to earth, how far away is the sun in km?
c) The moon is roughly 239,000 miles from earth. how long does it take sunlight to travel from the moon's surface to the earth?
6) american physical chemist Lewis propesed a unit of time called the "jiffy" According to Lewis 1 jiffy = the time it takes light to travel 1 cm. (the speed of light c= 3.00x10^8 m/s). a) If you perform a task in jiffy, how long is that in second?
b) How many jiffys are in 2 mintutes?