Unit Conversions Answers

You are a building contractor. A customer asks you to build a ground-level deck that is 12 feet by 12 feet by 9 inches. You go to the lumberyard to order wood. The attendant assures you that the yard has enough wood to build the deck. According to the attendant, the yard currently has 1,750 cubic feet of lumber in its inventory.

As the owner of a pastry shop, you decide to have a sale on brownies. You price each brownie at 37 cents. At the end of the sale, you have sold 10 trays of brownies, with 12 brownies in each tray.How much money did you receive from selling the brownies?

You are a plumber who needs to replace a broken pipe that is 12.5 feet long. You have 2 pipes, A and B, that are 3.75 meters and 4.25 meters long, respectively. A pipe longer than the broken pipe can be cut to fit.Which pipe can be used to complete the task, and why?

As a maintenance electrician, it takes you 40 minutes to rewire a motor. You have 6 motors to rewire.At that rate, how many hours will it take you to rewire the motors?

At the office-supply store where you work, stamps are sold for 47 cents each. A customer purchases 2 books of stamps. Each book contains 12 stamps.How much should you charge the customer?

You are checking in a customer’s bag for a flight out of the country. There is a 50-pound weight limit per bag. The customer’s bag weighs 47 pounds. The country the customer is flying to needs the weight of the bag in kilograms to determine compliance.

You are a carpenter who frames posters of various sizes. A customer asks you to frame a poster that requires 166 inches of molding. You have a piece of molding that is 13 feet, 9 inches long, that you can use for the frame.Do you have enough molding to complete the task? Justify your reasoning.

As a manager in a flooring store, you respond to a customer’s inquiry regarding available sizes of square tiles. The customer needs square tiles that measure 1.5 feet on each side. Your store sells square tiles with lengths measured in centimeters.

You are a wedding planner who is filling small pouches with biodegradable confetti for a wedding reception. You want to fill each pouch with of a cup of confetti, and you have a total of 210 fluid ounces of confetti. You need enough pouches for 120 guests.

As a butcher, you sell beef in 3.5-pound packages. You anticipate needing 25 packages for the next two days. The wholesaler from whom you purchase large pieces of meat measures the weight of the beef in kilograms.Which equation can you use to determine the weight of the beef, in kilograms, that you need to purchase from the wholesaler?