FACTOR LABEL HOMEWORK
This guide provides a comprehensive approach to metric and English unit conversions through two essential steps. It demonstrates how to convert various units, including nanometers to kilometers, teragrams to micrograms, milliliters to liters, gallons to liters, seconds to years, and milliliters per minute to quarts per hour. By breaking down the conversions into a base unit step and a desired unit step, this guide simplifies the conversion process and enhances understanding of metric conversions.
FACTOR LABEL HOMEWORK
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FACTOR LABEL HOMEWORK
1. 1.55 x 106 nm = km This is just a metric conversion ---- always 2 steps. One step to the BASE unit, meters: One step to the desired unit, kilometers: Start with what you’re given: 1 km 1x10-9 m 1.55 x 106 nm x x 1 nm 1x103 m 1.55x10-6km
2. .00000093 Tg = g This is just a metric conversion ---- always 2 steps. One step to the BASE unit, grams: One step to the desired unit, micrograms: Start with what you’re given: 1 g 1x1012 g .00000093Tg x x 1 Tg 1x10-6 g 9.3x1011g
3. 8.5 x 10-20 Ml = ml This is just a metric conversion ---- always 2 steps. One step to the BASE unit, liters: One step to the desired unit, milliliters: Start with what you’re given: 1 ml 1x106 l 8.5 x10-20 Ml x x 1 Ml 1x10-3 l 1000 ml 1 l Or you could use this for last fraction 8.5x10-11ml
4. 8 gallons = liters Gallons is an English unit and liters is a metric unit - determine what Metric-English conversion will work (from box at top of homework) Start with what you’re given: 4 .94 l qt 8 gal x x 1 gal 1 qt 30.08 liters
5. 5.75 x 1015 s = years Keep converting to bigger units of time until you get to years: Start with what you’re given: 1 days yr 1 1 1 min hr 5.75 x1015s x x x x hr 60 s 24 min 60 365 days 1.82x108 yr
6. 500 ml/min = qt/hr This has 2 dimensions. Convert ml to qt and min to hr Start with what you’re given: ml is on top Min on bottom 1 500 ml 1x10-3 qt l 60 min x x x 1 hr min .94 l 1 ml 31.9 qt/hr
1. 1.55 x 106 nm = km This is just a metric conversion ---- always 2 steps. One step to the BASE unit, meters: One step to the desired unit, kilometers: Start with what you’re given: 1x10-9 1 km m 1.55 x 106 nm x x 1 nm 1x103 m 1.55x10-6km
