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Offline jaccia

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kilometers to liters conversion
« on: June 10, 2010, 04:15:36 PM »
What is the conversion to get from kilometers to liters?

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2010, 04:20:16 PM »
Take kilometers divide by pi.  Then multiply by 6.4.  (I'm joking)

You do know that kilometers are an unit of distance, and liters are an unit of volume?

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2010, 04:25:45 PM »
I am trying to do the following:

In Europe, gasoline efficiency is measured in Km/L, If your car's gas mileage is 30.0 mi/gal, how many liters of gasoline would you need to buy to comlete a 142km trip in Europe?  1 km=0.6214mi  , 1 gal=3.78L

30.0mi/1 gal * 1 km/.6214mi* 1 L /142km* 1 gal/3.78L

So, i know the 1 L /142 km is wrong, how do i set this up correctly?

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2010, 04:39:17 PM »
Take kilometers divide by pi.  Then multiply by 6.4.  (I'm joking)

You do know that kilometers are an unit of distance, and liters are an unit of volume?

Ha ha!  I was wondering if I had read the title correctly.

Jaccia, it's more simple than you're making it.  The easiest way is to convert each unit individually and then slap them on top of each other to get the proper ratio.  But the dimensional analysis you posted is correct except for the 1L/142 km, why is that there?  142 is a separate calculation.  The dimensional analysis converts mi/gal to km/L.  Once you know how many km you get per L, then apply the 142 km/x L.

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2010, 04:39:44 PM »
How many miles is 142 km?

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2010, 05:14:48 PM »
I do not understand either post.  Get rid of the 1/142 km , ok

Then when i cancel and multiply i get 12.8

Take 12.8/1 L * 1 L/142 km =.09 but all the meters cancel each other out...what am i doing wrong?

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2010, 05:41:38 PM »
Why are you putting 142 km/1 L?  You aren't trying to drive 142 km on 1 L, you need to solve for the number of L, so you should have 142 km/x L (x = number of liters you will need to travel 142 km).  So once you've converted 30 mi/1 gal into km/L, then apply that ratio to 142 km/ x L.

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2010, 05:54:45 PM »
So do i set it up as follows:

12.8 km/1L * 142 km/xL=

12.8x km/L / 12.8 = 142 km/L /12.8

x = 11.09L  Is this the answer?

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2010, 09:40:10 PM »
Yes that's the correct answer, but the first line you put up isn't correct.  It should be:

12.8 km/1L = 142 km/x L

Your other calculation/equation is correct.

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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2010, 03:39:36 AM »
In Europe, gasoline efficiency is measured in Km/L

Huh? What idiocy. We use L per 100 km.
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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2010, 04:48:43 PM »

In Europe, gasoline efficiency is measured in Km/L, If your car's gas mileage is 30.0 mi/gal, how many liters of gasoline would you need to buy to comlete a 142km trip in Europe?  1 km=0.6214mi  , 1 gal=3.78L

I find it quite odd that for a problem set in Europe they've given you the US gallon to litre conversion factor.

Theres also the UK (which was in europe the last time I looked) Imperial Gallon which is equivalent to 4.55 L
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Re: kilometers to liters conversion
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2010, 06:03:36 AM »
If your car's gas mileage is 30.0 mi/gal

They've also given American fuel consumption figures; if my car only gave me 25mpg for a ~90 mile trip I'd take it to a garage to get it fixed.

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