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.

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-10T16:46:40

I can answer the first question..

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)

Answer 2 · 2018-05-10T22:23:59

#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#