Dimensional Analysis (Factor Label Method)
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Dimensional Analysis Practice (Factor Label Method)
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Three humdingers make one farknarkle. Two zipporwills make one humdinger. Five tukafores make one zipporwill. One farknarkle has a mass of four grams. You can buy three tukafores for two cents.
1. If you have 18 zipporwills, how many farknarkles can you make?
2. What is the mass of 6 zipporwills?
3. What is the mass of 15 tukafores?
4. If you have 8 grams of farknarkle, how many humdingers do you have?
5. What is the cost to buy 2 grams of farknarkle?
6. If you buy 20 cents worth of tukafores, how many farknarkles can you make? Dimensional Analysis Practice
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Suppose you wanted to build a fence out of cedar boards. Each cedar board is 8.0 inches wide. You want no spaces between the cedar boards. For each cedar board you use, you need four nails.
Nails are $5.00 per pound There are 150 nails per pound. There are 12 inches in a foot. There are 2.2 pounds in a kilogram. There are 1000 grams in a kilogram.
1. To build a 100.0 foot fence, what will be the cost of the nails?
2. To build a 50.0-foot fence, what will be the mass in grams of the nails you will need?
3. If you spend 100.00 dollars on nails, how long of a cedar fence could you build?
4. If you have 3000. grams of nails, how long of a cedar fence could you build? Dimensional Analysis Practice
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One dozen eggs has a mass of 600 grams. There are 12 eggs in a dozen. There are 1000 grams in a kilogram. There are 2.2 kilograms in a pound. One dozen eggs costs $1.00
1. If you have 63 eggs, how many dozens do you have?
2. If you have 3.4 dozen eggs, how many eggs do you have?
3. What is the mass in kilograms of 37 eggs?
4. How much would it cost to buy 23 eggs?
5. If you have 3.2 kilograms of eggs, how many eggs do you have?