(d) In March 1989, the Exxon Valdez ran aground and spilled 240,000 barrels of crude petroleum off the coast of Alaska. One barrel of petroleum is equal to 42 gal. How many liters of petroleum were spilled?

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Hi everyone here we have a question telling us that the oil tanker Tasman Spirit was carrying about 28,000 registered tons of crude oil When it ran aground at Clifton's beach in Karachi Pakistan on July 27, 2003. The ship spilled about 11,200 registered tons of crude oil into the Arabian Sea Converts his volume into m3. So we need to remember that one registered ton equals 100 B cubed and one m Equals 3.28 ft. Now that we have our conversion factors, we can put it into an equation. So we're going to start off with our 11, register tens And we're going to multiply that by 100 ft Cube Over one registered ton. And then we're going to multiply that by one m over 3.28 ft. And this whole thing is going to be cute and our registered tons are going to cancel out and our feet cubed are going to cancel out, leaving us with meters cubed And 31,000 equals 31, 739 meters cubed. And that is our final answer. Thank you for watching. Bye.