Just need a little math help....

[Fred Douglass]

..I'm trying to extrapolate from a magazine article exactly what a LITER is, in terms of CUBIC INCHES. I think that I came up with the figure that one cubic inch=16.37 cubic centimeters. I then divided 5733 cc by 5.7 liters (Porsche Carerra GT) and got a liter=1005 cc. Since 1 cubic inche=16.39 cc, one liter=61.3 cubic inches. Zat right?

NOTE each respondent is allowed a few (FEW) lines for derision---but thereafter must correct my figures!

Thanks,

Yours in hopeless mathematical bufoonery,

[bwana50]

I think you're close enough. If I recall correctly, a liter by definition is 1000 cc.

[Okiesnake]

1 liter = 61.0237441 cubic inch

5,733 cc x 1 Liter/1000 cc x 61.024 cubic inch/1 liter = 349.85 cubic inches

or

350 ci x 1 liter/61.024 ci = 5.735 liters

5.735 liters x 1000 cc/1 liter = 5735 cc

[casaleenie]

Phred,

A liter is about six and one half ft. long and about three feet in width...
and usually used to carry wounded/injured people to an aid station or to transportation to a care facility.


The previous posters seem to think it has something to do with measurement and math...

anytime

[JWheaton]

Freud,

Online search would help you out.

Can you spell G O O G L E? If so, go to Google.com and search for 'metric conversions'. Oh, never mind I did it for you and here are some of the better sites.

Good Luck now.

http://www.onlineconversion.com/
http://www.allmath.com/metric.asp
http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html


Unless I was on a sinking ship and had to figure out time until sunk I would not need any of this stuff. I don't sail so this works for me!

[Fred Douglass]

.....tanks (and armored cars)!

Wheat-thin, sorry I don't measure up to your displacement---oops----I meant IQ.
As I indicated indirectly in my original query, I don't suffer from great ego, especially in the domain of mathematics. Some things are above me and some things are below me. You may ______ me (pick one from the previous sentence)!

Casa, priceless, as usual.

[Fred Douglass]

Wheat, my bad, I meant to thank you for the GOGGLEsearch sites...Tanks.

Okie---ooooooopsie on the title of my previous post!!!. NOW I'll have the JDL and assorted sharp-eyed sentitivity policed oop me tile-poipe! Hope B----- is no loonger checking my posts. No offence intended to anyone, especially "Freud"-types (who would impute all kinds of hidden agendas in my typo)!

Pacis vobiscum omnes!

[Okiesnake]

Reminds me of a joke.

What is the volume capacity of Monica Lewinski's mouth?


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