MATH QUIZ for 9 June 04

[Ralph Jones]

Good Evening Friends,
A yard of concrete contains .7641 cubic meters/metres.

How many cubic feet would you have?

Respectfully, :)

[zitan]

0.7641*(1/0.3048)^3=26.984 ft^3?

[bitingmidge]

27!

Either the question is too easy Ralph, or I've been looking at too many Transit Van brochures today.

3' x 3' x3' used to be a cubic yard as I recall....so a little cheat on the metric conversion never hurt anyone!

Cheers,
P ;)

[Robert WA]

If the truck can gets its outlet shute to the job - not much.
If you have to move it with a barrow - too much.

I agree that 3x3x3 = 27. The metric equivalent is a red herring.

[Sir Stinkalot]

Again Ralph is trying to trick us with his wording ......

He is correct in saying that a yard of concrete contains 0.7641 cubic meters/metres. That is a simple fact.

Now the second part ..... how many cubic feet would you have?

Well I have two feet but they are not cubic so the answer must be zero or 0.

[woodymarts]

hmmmmmmm,
i am not quiet sure i am still tring to work it out .
woodmarts :confused:

[woodymarts]

still working it out?

[Ralph Jones]

Good Morning Friends,
bitingmidge and Robert WA have the correct answer which is 27 Cu Ft per yard.

Robert gave me a conversion site that I am going to pass on to you with his blessings, I hope.

http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/EASYarea.html

I know it has helped me already very well and thanks again Robert for passing it to me.

Thank you all for your support.

Respectfully, :)

[DanP]

Another conversion site. This one will convert anything to anything...

www.onlineconversion.com (http://www.onlineconversion.com)

Convert light years to parsecs (1 light year = 0.3065948 parsec).....Beam me up Scotty :D :D

Dan

[zitan]

You can get the freeware program "convert", useful when you're not online.

used in industry worldwide

one place to get it from:
http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/

[journeyman Mick]

Another conversion site. This one will convert anything to anything...Dan

Great, I've got a truck load of lead I'd like converted to gold and a few packs of pine I'd like turned into maple silkwood. :p

Mick