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Ch.1 - Matter, Measurement & Problem Solving

Chapter 1, Problem 54

The warmest temperature ever measured in the United States is 134 °F, recorded on July 10, 1913, in Death Valley, California. Convert that temperature to °C and K.

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hi everyone for this problem, we want to convert negative 62 degrees Celsius, two F and Calvin. So we have two parts to this problem. Let's go ahead and get started. So when we want to convert our temperature and degrees Celsius to Calvin, we add 273.15 and that is going to give us our temperature and Calvin so we can go ahead and plug in what we know, We know we have negative 62°C. So when we add 273.152 that we get a final answer of 0.15 Calvin. And that's the answer to the first part. For the second part, when we have our temperature and degrees Fahrenheit and we want to go to kelvin, we say that it is equal to 9/ times our degrees Celsius plus 32 so let's go ahead and plug in. So are degrees Fahrenheit is going to equal 9/5 times our degrees Celsius, which is negative 62 degrees Celsius plus 32. So our degrees and Fahrenheit is going to equal -79.6 and that is our final answer for the second part of the question and that is the end of this problem. I hope this was helpful