Calculating Filling Time for a Large Bottle of Water

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The problem involves calculating the time required to fill a large bottle with water, specifically focusing on measurements and unit conversions related to volume and mass. The original poster presents a scenario involving a bottle's capacity and the rate of filling.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Mathematical reasoning, Assumption checking

Approaches and Questions Raised

  • The original poster attempts to understand how to convert the density and volume units to find the filling time. Some participants suggest converting cubic centimeters to cubic meters and clarify the relationship between mass and volume for water.

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Participants have provided guidance on unit conversions and have checked calculations. There is an acknowledgment of a useful conversion factor regarding the mass of water, but no explicit consensus on the final answer has been reached.

Contextual Notes

The original poster expresses uncertainty about the format of their question and the calculations involved, indicating a learning context where they are still grasping the concepts of density and volume.

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Hi, I just started my school year, and we're currently on Measurements. I need help with this one problem that my teacher assigned.

The biggest bottle ever made was 193 gallons (730,505cc). If the bottle were filled with water of a density of 1000 kg/m^3 at the leisurely rate of 1.8 g/min, how long would the filling process take?

If this is not the format or if anything is incorrect in the way I typed this, sorry (notice post counts).

EDIT: I realize that [kg/(kg/min)=min], but I don't know how to get rid of the m^3 on the density part. Thanks in advance.
 
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Every 1000kg you fill you've filled one cubic meter (m^3). Convert the 730 505cc to cubic meters to see how many you need to fill.
 
Okay, based on your advice I got: 405,836.1 minutes. Is it alright if you check this for me?
 
looks good.

Note: A quick trick for this problem is an easy to remember conversion that a cubic centimeter of water has a mass of 1g. Thus filling 1.8 g/min = 1.8 cc/min thus:

[tex]\frac{730,505 cc}{\frac{1.8 cc}{min}}} = 405,836.1 min[/tex]

They gave you that same conversion factor in the question, but in the somewhat less useful form (for this question) of 1m^3 of water = 1000kg

~Lyuokdea
 
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