Question

You are drinking from a standard (10 oz) coffee cup when a fly starts buzzing around your hands. After finishing your beverage, you quickly trap the fly inside the cup. You then notice another fly is buzzing nearby and you deftly manage to trap the second fly in the cup without releasing the first fly. If you were able to continue trapping flies until the cup was full, estimate how many flies you could trap in the cup.

Answer 1

The oz is the unit of volume. Convert the unit of volume of the cup from oz to cubic meter 2.95735x105m 1 oz V-10 oz -2.95735x 10-4 m3 Consider the volume of each fly is approximately as 1.08x10m3 Let N number of flies is being trapped. So, (2.95735 x10 m)N(1.08x10 m N-2740 flies approximately