Download
Skip this Video
1 / 8
Factor Label Method of Problem Solving - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
- 115 Views
- Uploaded on
Factor Label Method of Problem Solving. Make sure that you…. Always label!!! Begin with the unit you want to find Cancel out the labels. The label that you want to find will be the only one that does not cancel out. Examples. How many seconds are there in August?. Conversion Factors:
Download Presentation 
An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation
PowerPoint Slideshow about 'Factor Label Method of Problem Solving' - corinne
An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation
Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author.
While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - E N D - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Presentation Transcript
Make sure that you…
- Always label!!!
- Begin with the unit you want to find
- Cancel out the labels
The label that you want to find will be the only one that does not cancel out
Examples
How many seconds are there in August?
Conversion Factors:
60 sec = 1min 60 min = 1hour
24 hours = 1day 31 days = August
24 hours
60 min
60 sec
31 days
?sec =
= 2,678,400 sec
1
1 day
1 hour
1 min
Interesting Facts for Sample Problems
- Longest Female Beard
- Vivian Wheeler of Wood River, Illinois, USA
- The longest strand was measured at 27.9 cm in 2000
- How many km is this?
27.9 cm
1km
1000 m
1 m
100 cm
= 2.79 X 10-4 km
? km =
The heaviest person in medical history was Jon Brower Minnoch (USA, 1941–83). He was 6’1” tall and weighed 442 kg in September 1976.
How many pounds did he weigh?
(HINT : use pg 18-19 in the back of your planner for conversion factors)
442 kg
2.2 lbs
? lb =
= 972.4 lbs
1
1 kg
Largest SpiderThe world's largest known spider is a male goliath bird-eating spider It had a record leg-span of 28 cm.
How many mm is this?
10 mm
28 cm
? mm =
= 280 mm
1
1 cm
- Takeru Kobayashi swept over his competition at the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating competition, gulping down 53.5 hot dogs in 12 minutes,
How many kg of hot dog did Takeru eat in 12 min? (HINT: 1 hotdog weights about 0.11 lb)
1 kg
2.2 lb
53.5 hotdogs
0.11 lb
1 hotdogs
? kg=
= 2.7 kg
- The 5-foot-7, 132-pound Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan,. He ate an average of one every 13 seconds
- "I think he has proven, once again, that he is one of the finest athletes of any sport in the world," said Richard Shea, a spokesman for the contest.
