Question

4. How many joules of heat energy does it take to burn off 500 000 cal of potato chips?

(1 cal = 4.184 )) Show your work.​

Answer 1

`2,092,000J`

Step-by-step explanation:

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In this case, we need to perform a unit conversion problem between cal and joule, taking into account that 1 cal equals 4.184 joules of energy, therefore, we write the following proportional factor:

`500,000cal*(4.184J)/(1cal)`

Whereas the 1 cal is written under the line in order to simplify the initial can and the 4.184 J on the line as joules are the required units. Thus, we obtain:

`2,092,000J`

As the energy required to burn off such amount of energy given of potato chips.

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