SOLUTION: Try this one: develop your approach and use fractions/rates/proportions to find your solution.
IN 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped 17 trillion gallons of rain over a few days
Question 1141527: Try this one: develop your approach and use fractions/rates/proportions to find your solution.
IN 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped 17 trillion gallons of rain over a few days in Texas. If a gallon of rain has 8 pints of water, and each pint weighs one pound, then how many tons of rain fell? Answer by ikleyn(52778) (Show Source):
(a) 1 gallon = 3.785 liters;
(b) 1 trillion = 1000 billions = .
(c) 17 trillions gallons of water = liters of water = cubic meters of water = tons of water. ANSWER
The problem's formulation invites to make a lot of unnecessary calculations and conversions - I chose much simpler way.
On the way, I used conversion
"1 cubic meter of water weights 1 metric ton"
which should be known to everyone who studied Science.
