Situation #2: Real world situations 1. You work for a restaurant and they put you in charge of ordering the beef from the retailer each week. If you need to make 150 hamburgers each day and each hamburger patty weighs 6 ounces before cooking, how many pounds of beef do you need to order from the retailer for the week? . Round to the nearest pound. 2. If a paper clip weighs 1 gram, how many paper clips will you get in a 0.8 kilogram box of paper clips? 3. You are traveling down the highway and notice mile markers and reflectors as you go along. If there are 11 reflectors between the mile markers and the reflectors are evenly spaced, how many feet are between each reflector? 4. To get power to an air compressor 55 feet of extension cord is needed, but at a job site only a 14-meter extension cord is available. Will there be enough extension cord to power the air compressor? ** Though this is a yes or no question, no credit will be given for this answer without supporting work. 5. Your best friend lives 700 miles away and you told her you would meet her tonight at her house. If you are traveling at 0.03 km/sec will you make it to your friend's house in 8 hours? 6. If you had 1 meter of yarn, your brother has 6 yards of yarn, your sister has 23 feet of yam, your mom has 132 cm of yarn and your dad has 58 inches of yarn, how much yarn (in cm) does your family have combined? 7. When skydiving they have a 87 kg weight limit. If you weigh 140 lbs and your equipment weighs 50 lbs, can you go skydiving? **Though this is a yes or no question, no credit will be given for this answer without supporting work. 67