Basic Dimensional Analysis

Chemistry Honors, Gunn High School

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Basic Dimensional Analysis Directions: Use dimensional analysis to solve each of the following. Show all conversion factors, units, and cancellations. Use your conversions reference chart if necessary from the skills and methods packet. Express your final answers to the correct number of significant figures. 1. How many kilometers are in 105 meters?

3. Convert 0.045 ounces to grams.

2. How many mm are there in 5.97 meters?

4. How many minutes are in 2.0 weeks?

5. How many liters are equal to 3,500,000 mL?

6. A can of coke contains 337.0 mL of liquid. How many cups are this equal to?

7. How many milliliters would appear on the label of a 1.00 gallon milk container?

8. The chemistry department is ordering test tubes. Each team receives 10 test tubes. There are 7 classes of 32 students in two person teams. A box of test tubes contains 100 tubes and there are 5 boxes per case. How many cases should Gunn purchase in order to satisfy the demand?

9. Your parents have decided to move to downtown Palo Alto and you have offered to help move the 973 boxes to your new house. Your car, a VW bug can only hold 7 boxes at a time. A round trip, including loading and unloading boxes, takes 44 minutes. How many hours will it take to move all the boxes?

10. You are at a soirée for Mr. Paley’s computer science students at the home of someone who lives here in Palo Alto. It is decided to order pizza for everyone and you have been put in charge of making it all happen. You want to get 3 slices of pizza for every person; there are 48 people at the party. The pizza’s cost $8.00 each on special and each pizza has 14 decent size slices. Including a 10% tip, how much money should you collect from each person.