In the United States, the volume of irrigation water is usually expressed acre-feet. One acre-foot is e volume of water sufficient to cover 1acre of land to a depth of 1 ft ( 640 acres =1 mi 2 ; 1 mi = 5280 ft ) . The principal lake in the California Water Project is Lake Oroville, whose water storage capacity is listed as 3.54 × 10 6 acre-feet. Express the volume of Lake Oroville in (a) cubic feet; (b) cubic meters; (C) U.S.gallons.
In the United States, the volume of irrigation water is usually expressed acre-feet. One acre-foot is e volume of water sufficient to cover 1acre of land to a depth of 1 ft ( 640 acres =1 mi 2 ; 1 mi = 5280 ft ) . The principal lake in the California Water Project is Lake Oroville, whose water storage capacity is listed as 3.54 × 10 6 acre-feet. Express the volume of Lake Oroville in (a) cubic feet; (b) cubic meters; (C) U.S.gallons.
Solution Summary: The author explains that the volume of Lake Oroville in cubic feet needs to be calculated.
In the United States, the volume of irrigation water is usually expressed acre-feet. One acre-foot is e volume of water sufficient to cover 1acre of land to a depth of 1 ft
(
640 acres =1 mi
2
; 1 mi = 5280 ft
)
. The principal lake in the California Water Project is Lake Oroville, whose water storage capacity is listed as
3.54
×
10
6
acre-feet. Express the volume of Lake Oroville in (a) cubic feet; (b) cubic meters; (C) U.S.gallons.
Dimensional Analysis is a way of doing numerical "book-keeping"
when converting quantities or performing calculations.
• When converting quantities from one unit to another,
conversion factors are used.
Solving with Dimensional Analysis and Multiple Units:
If I am in Canada where the price of gas is $1.022 USD·L1, how
much will it cost me to fill up my gas tank if I travelled 125 km?
• Let's also assume that my car gets
an average of 30.0 miles/gallon.
Earth's oceans have an average depth of 3800 m, a total area of 3.63 x 10 km², and an average concentration of dissolved gold of 5.8 × 10. If a recent
$987.00
troy oz
what is the value of gold in the oceans? (I troy oz 31.1 g) Round your answer to 2 significant figures.
Note: Reference the SI prefixes and Unit conversions for derived SI units tables for additional information.
price of gold was
0
The volume of water in large scale reservoirs is often measured in units of an acre-foot, which is the amount of water covering one acre of surface to a depth of one foot. An acre-foot is equivalent to 43,560 ft³. A particular water tower in town was constructed to hold 2.55 acre-feet of water. What is the volume of water in liters that the water tower will hold? ( 1 US liquid gallon = 231 cubic inches, 3.785 liters = 1 US liquid gallon)
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