Question

1. Unit Conversions:
   1. A corgee is an obsolete unit of measurement from Indi One corgee is equivalent to 212 moodahs. A moodah is equivalent to a bundle of rice, which weighs 2.48 lbs. How many corgees would a 14 kg male adult Corgi weigh?
   2. Carnegie Mellon University recently showcased an exhibit on computer history. This exhibit featured the MOS 6502, the CPU powering the Apple II, Commodore 64 and other computers. The MOS 6502 performs 1,000,000 instructions every second. A modern Core i3 can complete 2 billion instructions every second. How many instructions could each of these processors complete in a non-leap year March, if they were running continuously.
   3. In the Ottoman Empire, mass was measured in a unit called batman (seriously!). One batman is equivalent to 920 g. If the real Batman weights 255 lbs on Earth, what is his weight in batmans? Actual robins (the birds) weigh 2.7 oz on average. If the real Robin has a mass of 56 batmans, what is his weight in robins?
   4. On 23 July 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 ran completely out of fuel about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton. Fuel loading was miscalculated through misunderstanding of the recently adopted metric system. For the trip, the pilot calculated a fuel requirement of 22,300 kilograms. There were 7,682 liters already in the tanks. How many cubic centimeters of fuel needed to be added to fill up the tanks to the required volume?
   5. BONUS: If this fuel was poured in to a 10 ft x 12 ft swimming pool, how deep would it be?

Answer 1