US oil production was 10,619,000 barrels per day in the last week of April, the most for any one week. A barrel is 119.24 liters. How much oil was produced per second? Come up with an object with a comparable volume to give your answer context.

2 Answers
May 10, 2018

I can answer the first question..

Explanation:

10,619,000 barrels are produced every 24 hours (one day). To find out how much was produced in 1 hour, we need to divide.

10,619,000 divide 24 = 442458.333333

Lets round the answer to something more usable.

442,459

Every hour, 442,459 barrels are produced.

Now we need to divide 442,459 by 60 to find out how much is produced in one minute. (There are 60 minutes in an hour)

442,559 divide 60 = 7374.31666667

Round the answer..

7,374

Every minute 7,374 barrels are produced.

Divide by the number of seconds in a minute.. (60)

7,347 divide 60 = 122.9

Round the answer to get 123

Every second, 123 barrels are produced.

(someone check if i'm right)

May 10, 2018

60 xx 60 xx 24=86,400 seconds in a day

(10,619,000)/(86,400)= 122.9050925926 barrels per second

Each barrel is 119.24 litres

122.9050925926 xx 119.24 =14,655.20324074 litres per second
1 litre = 1000 cm^3

14,655.20324074 xx 1000 = 14,655,203.24074 cm^3

1 m^3 = 1,000,000 cm^3

14,655,203.24074 cm^3=14.65520324074 m^3

An object 3.5 m by 2.1 m by 2 m would have a volume of 14.7 m^3