Converting units of volume (cc/cm^3/litres/m^3)

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Christian Lawson-Perfect	said	Ready to use	7 years, 8 months ago
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Chris Graham commented 7 years, 7 months ago

Fixed a static pronoun!

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Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 8 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 8 months ago

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Chris Graham 7 years, 8 months ago

Gave some feedback: Needs to be tested

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Chris Graham commented 7 years, 8 months ago

Split from a larger question, for which this part was incorrect. I've fixed the conversion for cm $^3$ to litres and removed the conversion to gallons, as this was not useful. I've replaced this with conversion from cm $^3$ to m $^3$ , which is more useful, and a common problem for students.

I've ripped this apart enough to warrant marking it "needs to be tested" rather than "ready to use".

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Name	Status	Author	Last Modified
Converting units of volume (cc/cm^3/litres/m^3)	Ready to use	Chris Graham	20/11/2019 14:36
Converting units of volume (cc/cm^3/litres/m^3)	draft	David Rickard	02/01/2019 18:59
Heather's copy of Converting units of volume (cc/cm^3/litres/m^3)	draft	Heather Driscoll	03/06/2019 11:52
Ivan's copy of Converting units of volume (cc/cm^3/litres/m^3)	draft	Ivan Munoz	10/11/2022 02:22

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{person['name']} is looking to buy a car. {capitalise(person['pronouns']['they'])} find{s} one advertised with an engine size of $\var{cc}$cc.

{person['name']} recognises that 'cc' stands for units of cubic centimetres (cm$^3$) and knows the following conversions:

$1$ m	$100$ cm
$1$ litre	$1000\text{cm}^3$

Give any introductory information the student needs.

			Name	Type	Generated Value

person	dict	Dictionary with 3 entries
litres	rational	9/5
cc	integer	1800
s	string	s
metres_cubed	number	0.0018

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Generated value: `dict`

[ "gender": safe("male"), "name": safe("Joel"), "pronouns": [ "they": safe("he"), "their": safe("his"), "theirs": safe("his"), "them": safe("him"), "themself": safe("himself") ] ]

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{person['name']} applies to find out how much the insurance for the car would cost, but is required to state the engine size in litres.

What is the engine size in litres?

Unnamed gap litres.

Advice

a)

The advertised engine size is $\var{cc}$ cubic centimetres. To convert cubic centimetres to litres, we divide by $1000$.

\[\var{cc}\div 1000= \var{litres}\text{ litres.}\]

b)

In order to convert to cubic metres, we first note that

\[ 1 \text{cm} = 0.01 \text{m.} \]

An example of a volume of $1\text{cm}^3$ is a cube with $1$cm sides. Converting each side into metres,

\begin{align}
1\text{cm}^3 &= 1\text{cm}\times1\text{cm}\times1\text{cm} \\
&= 0.01\text{m}\times0.01\text{m}\times0.01\text{m} \\
&= 0.000001\text{m}^3 \text{.}
\end{align}

Therefore $\var{cc}\text{cm}^3$ is

\[ \var{cc} \times 0.000001 = \var{metres_cubed}\text{m}^3\text{.} \]

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