SOLUTION: The average person breathes 6 times per minute, inhaling and exhaling half a liter of air each time. How much hot air (the air warmed by the body), in liters, does the average pers
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Question 262381: The average person breathes 6 times per minute, inhaling and exhaling half a liter of air each time. How much hot air (the air warmed by the body), in liters, does the average person exhale each day? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
There are 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in an hour, so there are 24 times 60 minutes equals 1440 minutes. Six exhales per minute means 6 times 1440 equals 8640 exhales per day. One-half liter per exhale times 8640 exhales is 4320 liters of hot air per day.
Purely coincidentally, 4320 liters is precisely the augmented aviation gasoline capacity of the B-25B Mitchell bombers used by Lt Col James "Jimmy" Dolittle during his April 1942 bombing raid on Tokyo.
