# 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.

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.

$10 , 619 , 000 \div i \mathrm{de} 24 = 442458.333333$

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)

$442 , 559 \div i \mathrm{de} 60 = 7374.31666667$

$7 , 374$

Every minute $7 , 374$ barrels are produced.

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

$7 , 347 \div i \mathrm{de} 60 = 122.9$

Round the answer to get $123$

Every second, $123$ barrels are produced.

(someone check if i'm right)

May 10, 2018

$60 \times 60 \times 24 = 86 , 400$ seconds in a day

$\frac{10 , 619 , 000}{86 , 400} = 122.9050925926$ barrels per second

Each barrel is 119.24 litres

$122.9050925926 \times 119.24 = 14 , 655.20324074$ litres per second
$1 l i t r e = 1000 c {m}^{3}$

$14 , 655.20324074 \times 1000 = 14 , 655 , 203.24074 c {m}^{3}$

$1 {m}^{3} = 1 , 000 , 000 c {m}^{3}$

$14 , 655 , 203.24074 c {m}^{3} = 14.65520324074 {m}^{3}$

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