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Unit conversions
1 in = 2.54 cm
1 ft = 0.3048 m
1 mi = 1.6093 km
1 lb = 0.4536 kg
1 L = 61.03 in3
Metric Prefixes
kilo (k) 103
hecto (h) 102
deca (da) 101
base (meter, liter, gram, etc) 100
deci (d) 101
centi (c) 102
milli (m) 103
Miscellaneous
Absolute change = new value reference value
change
Relative change = absolute
reference value
Absolute difference = compared value ref. value
difference
Relative difference = absolute
reference value
Absolute error = measured error true value
error
Relative error = absolute
true value
2. Draw a Venn diagram for each problem representing each of the following scenarios.
(a) In a group of 60 politicians,
20 are Republican and male.
10 are Democrat and female.
5 are Democrat and male.
Premise:
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5. Mr. Turtle runs at a speed of 1 mm per second. What is Mr. Turtles speed in miles per hour?
6. A rectangle has sides of 10 cm and 17 cm. What is the area of the rectangle in inches?
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(b) 35 C to F and K.
8. You are on vacation in Japan. You see a camera that you want to buy priced at 250, 000 yen.
You have 120 British pounds. Do you have enough to buy this camera assuming that there is a
place near by that can convert British pounds to Japanese yen?
9. You are taking a trip and you must drive 300 miles. You drive a car that gets 19 miles per
gallon and has 15 gallons of gas in it. Will you need to stop during your trip to get gas?
10. You drive a Ford Taurus that has a value of $15, 000. Over a 5 year period, it depreciates to
a value of $12, 000. Find the absolute and relative change in the value of your car over the 5 year
period.
11. In a recent year, the United States made $12.1 billion in international arms sales and Russia
made $5.8 billion in arm sales. Find the absolute and relative difference between the US and
Russian international arms sales.
12. At a local convience store, you buy a bag of Doritos for $0.99 and a Full Throttle energy drink
for $1.99. If there is 6% sales tax, how much will you spend at the convenience store?
13. Recently, youve been slacking off at work. Your boss threatens to reduce your salary by 10% if
you dont start working seriously. You continued to slack off and your boss reduced your salary by
10% so that youre now making $27, 820 annually. How much did you make annually before your
pay cut?
14. Convert the following numbers to scientific notation.
(a) 5,230,000
(b) 0.0000000124
(c) 1350
15. Convert the following numbers written in scientific notation to standard form.
(a) 4.806 107
16. You have a map where 1 cm = 10 km. What is the scale ratio?
17. The planet Jupiter has a diameter of 143, 000 km and an average distance to the sun of 778.3
million km. Using a scale ratio of 1 to 10 billion, calculate the scaled size and distance from the
sun for Jupiter.