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un { late Cis Period Dimensional Analysis Worksheet Set up and solve the following using dimensional analysis. 1 mile = 5,280 ft 54cm 3 feet = 1 yard Don't forget: | What you want 454g = ‘Ib 946 mL = 1 at 4aqt=1 gal What you've got 1) 5,400 inches to miles ‘1 54o0in| 1% | Swi = 9.085 mileo [Zin 51904 2) 16 weeks to seconds Wweks |p degs | wo | 0 inn WIS. 4 Ge 500 5 dw | day 4 hy Tae ul 3) 54 yards to mm A yods | 34) in | Us¢em 1O mm ayelan [as Fee 7 143720 mam 4) 36 cmisec to mph %ouse| 45 4h \ le Se | bre A305 see | AStam \ ita | 62608) amin] abr mph 5) 1.09 g/mL to lbs/gal \.04 Worl] agt Ibs A “Va5tg | ge Pagel © 7 6) 19 inches to feet (din JH se ft \Lia 7) 840 inches to om BAO in | 1.S4e—> z 2 FreM 2,133.6 em 8) 4.22 glemto Ibs.ft A179 4 Dishew | IDK | cm JAStg) fi 0.28 Ibs/fy 9) 32 ft/sec to meters/min B44] Fem | 2 Stem) a COS S 595.2 m/mn sed ih lem 100 crm \ dein 10) Write, and then solve your own dimensional analysis problem. Be creative! 11) You have the Heebie-Geebies. Your grandmother sends you a remedy for the Heebie-Geebies with the following instructions: “Take 1 drop per 10 Ibs. of body weight per day divided into 4 doses until the Heebie-Geebies are gone.” How many drops do you take per dose?? 190 Ibs | Saep doy. 3,75dnps{dose. dey 10 Wis) 4 dasea 12) You're throwing a pizza party for 15 people and figure that each person will eat 4 slices. You.call up the pizza place and lan that each pizza will cost you $14.78 and it will be cut into 12 slices. How much is the pizza going to cost you? You only have $70. Will you have enough money? 1S 4 Siena _| pret | $ 14-78 2 $73.90 peSin |\7Sliu} piteo i “| no. you Afe $3.90 shod 13) Every three times | clean my bedroom, my mother makes me an apple pie. | cleaned my bedroom 9 times. How many apple pies does she owe me? (What?! Your mother doesn't reward you for cleaning your bedroom? Aren't there child labor laws? To make up for that injustice, you may have this very easy problem.) Atimeo | Pre 2 3 prto Ste 14) In my chemistry class, 28 students are each given 3 pens. If there are 8 pens in one package, priced at $1.88 per package, what is the total cost of giving away pens? ZS Studterg, 15) Convert 5.70 Kilograms to milligrams. Show your work! 9.70 \eq | iodo | 10M YE ag Lh 4 470 7 “o 16) You find 13,408,190 pennies. How many dollars did you actually find? if each benny weighs 4 grams, how much did all that loot weigh in Ibs.? (2.2 Ibs = 1 Kilogram 13, 406,140 pownita |_| Aollav = fis 01.10 100 pemnige ; \% 406 140 pennies» 4 1k5 | 22M T piv | 10005 Tey 2 117,9% 4116 17) Assume a movie ticket costs $9, how many movie tickets could you buy with the Pennies you found in #8? $134, 01,90] eet $4 2H 14,895 tees dt DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS PROBLEMS Conversions Factors J se liana 1 L= 1000 mL DIRECTIONS: Solve each problem using dimensional analysis. Every number must have a unit. Work must be shown, Conversion factors are given below 1.) How many miles will a person run during a 10 kilometer race? Rete = 0.21mi Liew 2.) The moon is 250,000 miles away. How many feet is it from earth? 150,080 ee 2 IBAGOOOOO fy 3.) A family pool holds 10,000 ee of water. How many cubic weer is this? 10, 200 geil \ ir 3 a Mm TEAL ga) 51.55 4.) The average American student is in class 330 minutes/day. How many hours/day is this? FW min | Iho ee “Ry foe 28:9 Ney How many seconds is this? 7300 {GOs . oe tee 19800 < 5) How many seconds are there in 1 year? A Boodeys {Ltr | LOmw | bOs Vda [Dor [amen = 31,536,002 s ©) Lake Michigan holds 1.3 x 10" gallons of water. How many liters is this? aa = 4.9410" o (000r) 2 “Lm alg 3 7) Pepsi puts 355 ml of pop in a can. How many drops is this? 100? oO Dm? 3 355 mat, {20 deoys 27, 100 dps | 00,0000? * Bae Coy At How many cubic meters is this? Aa? he 2 390 mL| Lin? | eee 23,5540 Can) Smt] 900,000 on? 9.0003 55m 8) Chicago uses 1.2 x 10° gallons of water /day. How many gallons per second must be pumped from the lake every second to supply the city? 4 * 10" @iw - gal SR Goes + sent. IMs 9) Sixty miles/ hour is how many fi/sec? : Ae | Bin Omi sak coal we > BY Ase ry | 4m 10) Lake Michigan holds 1.3 x 10" gallons of water. If just Chicago removed water from the lake and it never rained again, how many days would the water last? Chicago uses 1.2 x 10° gallons of water /day 13x10! 941 day : —Trantial = 4089538,3 days 11). How many minutes are in 180.0 days? (©0-deys ies Th > 254,202 mip 12), Ifa person weighs 125 Ibs, 8 oz,, how many mg does s/he ‘weigh? $e |e 2 05h +115Ib [6 0% \25,5 lb | 494 1 000m: z SG Lib 44 777,200 eee

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