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Grade 12General Physics

a certain brand of house paint claims a coverage of 460 ft^2/gal.What is its coverage in square meters per liter?

Profile image of Patricia Concepcion
5 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Harshit Singh
5 Years ago
Dear Student

Using AppendixD, we have1ft=0.3048m,1gal=231in3, and1in3=1.639×10−2L.
From the latter two items, we find that1gal=3.79L. Thus the quantity
460ft2/galbecomes

460ft2/gal=(460ft2​/gal)(1m​/3.28ft)(1gal​/3.79L)= 11.3 m2/L



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