Chapter 1, Problem 1.83E

Standard printer and copier paper is the United States is 81/2 in. by 11 in. What are these dimensions in centimeters?

What is the length of the Mississippi River in kilometers if it is 2.3 x 103 miles long?

What is the name of the unit whose symbol is nm? Is it a long distance or a short distance? How long or how short?

The height of Angel Falls in Venezuela is 979 m. How high is this in a yards; b feet?

The Kohinoor Diamond (d=3.51g/cm3) is 108 carats. If one carat has a mass of 2.00102 mg, what is the mass of the Kohinoor Diamond in pounds? What is the volume of the diamond in cubic inches?

At a particular instant in time, the earth is judged to be 92, 955, 000 miles from the sun. what is the distance in kilometers

A plane flies at a speed of 2.90 x 101 miles per hour.  What is this speed in meters per second?

A piece of cardboard is 12.0 cm long and 6.3 cm wide. What is the area of this piece of cardboard in square millimeters? Enter your answer in the space provided WITHOUT units. Make sure to round your answer to the correct number of significant figures. Please give the number as a normal number, do not use scientific notation.  (In example: a normal number = 4300 instead of the number being in scientific notation as = 4.3 X 103)

If the Moon is 246,000 miles from Earth, what is the distance in kilometers?(Given: 1 mile = 1.61 kilometer )