Question

How can a air conditioning system circulate 500 cubic feet of air per minute, how many cubic yards can it circulate per minute?

Answer 1

Set up your factor label method to look like this, keeping in mind that there are 3 feet in a yard.
`500 ft^(3) * (1yd*1yd*1yd)/(3ft*3ft*3ft)` which simplifies to 500/27, which is 18.5 cubic yards.

Answer 2

18.52 cubic yards

Explanation:

To get how many cubic yards can it circulate per minute, we must get the relationship between feet and yards.

1 Feet = 1/3 yard

As such,

1 cubic feet = 1/27 cubic yard

Hence 500 cubic feet =

500/27 cubic yard.

The cubic yards it can circulate per minute

= 500/27 cubic yard

= 18.52 cubic yards