Unit Conversion Exercises and Calculations
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EXERCISES ON CONVERSIONS
1. Write the following expressions in unit factor form:
One gram is equivalent to one thousand milligrams.
The price of a kilogram of tortilla is $11.50
c) 600 mL of soda contains 60 g of sugar
d) The serum contains 0.9 g of sodium chloride per milliliter of serum.
There are 21 grams of nitrogen for every 100 mL of air.
One milliliter of ethanol weighs 0.78 grams.
2. Write an expression for each of the following values represented as unit factors:
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3. Express each of the following values in the form of a unit factor:
a) The density of mercury: 13.6 g/cm3
b) The concentration of a solution: 0.5 mol/L
c) The speed of a car: 80 km/h
d) The concentration of a solution: 25%
4. Calculate the volume of a rectangular aluminum bar if its dimensions are: 10cm wide, 2cm
thickness and 90cm in length.
5. Which has more mass, 100 pellets of 10g each or 200 pellets of 0.1oz each?
6. If the sack of sugar (20kg) costs $120:
a) Calculate how much one kilogram costs
b) Calculate how many pounds a sack has
c) Calculate what the price of a pound would be
7. Convert the following quantities into different volume units:
mL m3 L
2
3000
2.5
3.5
0.4
1500
8. Convert the following amounts into different units of mass:
ton kg g mg µg lb
0.035
400
300,000
300
3.8
1
9. Calculate how many cm3there is in 1m3.
10. Calculate how many3how many in 1mL, and in 1L?
11. Calculate how many cubic centimeters are in 1.5L.
12. Calculate the volume, in liters, of a container that measures 30cm high, 4.5cm wide, and 15cm long.
13. A steel ruler 30cm long has a mass of 2g with 4mg. Calculate the mass of the ruler in grams.
ten centimeters long.
A storm opened a crack in the hull of the Prestige ship on November 18, 2002, near La
Coruña, 600 kilometers northwest of Madrid. The tanker, flying the Bahamian flag, spilled around
3000 metric tons of oil. Sea areas were covered with a layer of oil estimated
in 40 centimeters of thickness.
a) Calculate the area (in km2y m2covered by this layer.
NOTEThe metric ton is a unit of volume equivalent to 2.83 m.3, used
formerly in the navy
15. What is the weight in tons of 120 mg of radium?
16. Currently, the selling price of Radium is $312,500 per gram. How much will 2 lb of Radium cost?
The density of carbon tetrachloride is 1.60 g/cm3How much is it in tons per cubic yard?
An oxygen atom has a mass of 2.68x10-28g. How many oxygen atoms are there in 10 lb of this
element?
19. An average person should not consume more than 60 grams of fat in their daily diet. A package of
cookies with chips report the following on their label: "1 serving equals 3 cookies" and "fat: 6 grams"
per portion”. How many cookies can be consumed without exceeding 50% of the maximum recommended intake?
20. An average man needs about 2.00 mg of riboflavin (vitamin B2per day. How many grams of cheese
must eat daily if that were the only source of riboflavin and the cheese contained 5.5 µg of
riboflavin per gram?
21. If 24 hens can lay 150 eggs in a week, how many days would 5 hens need to lay 250?
eggs?
ANNEX
Unit equivalences of Unit equivalences of
Volume Table
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1 cm 1 mL 1 ton = 1000 kg
1 dm3 = 1 L 1 kg = 1000 g
1 m3 = 106cm3 1 g = 1000 mg
1 cm3= 3.531 x 10-5ft3 1g= 106µg
1 cm36.102 x 10-2plg3 1 oz = 28.35 g
1 lb = 453.6 g
SI prefixes Other equivalences
to act 10-18 E exa 1018 1 cm 0.3937 inches
f femto 10-15 P map 1015 1 ft 30.4813 cm
p pico 10-12 T tetra 1012 1µm = 10-4cm
in nano 10-9 G giga 109 δ H2O = 1 g/mL
-8
µ micro 10
-6
M mega 106 1Å = 10 cm
-3
m mili 10 k kilo 103
c centi 10-2 h hecto 102 Normal Conditions of
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Temperature and Pressure (TPN):
d deci 10 from the kids 101 0º C y 760 mmHg