Question

A car manufacturer states that a particular car uses 5 liters of fuel in traveling 100 km, produces 110 grams of CO2 for each km traveled. Use this information to calculate the mass of CO2 produced by 1 liter of fuel. Give your answer in kg.

a) 2.2 kg of CO2
b) 1.1 kg of CO2
c) 0.22 kg of CO2
d) 0.11 kg of CO2

Answer 1

To calculate the mass of CO2 produced by 1 liter of fuel, we can use the information provided by the car manufacturer. The car uses 5 liters of fuel to travel 100 km and produces 110 grams of CO2 for each km traveled. Therefore, 1 liter of fuel would produce 2.2 kg of CO2.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the mass of CO2 produced by 1 liter of fuel, we can use the information provided by the car manufacturer. The car uses 5 liters of fuel to travel 100 km and produces 110 grams of CO2 for each km traveled. So, for 1 liter of fuel, the car would travel 20 km (100 km / 5 L).

Now, we can calculate the mass of CO2 produced by 1 liter of fuel. For every km traveled, the car produces 110 grams of CO2. Therefore, for 20 km traveled (using 1 liter of fuel), the car would produce a total of 2200 grams of CO2.

Since the question asks for the answer in kilograms, we need to convert the grams to kilograms. 2200 grams is equal to 2.2 kilograms. So, the correct answer is 2.2 kg of CO2.