The Berliner Lecture Room (PSB 180) at Bryn Mawr College is
approximately 42.8 feet long by 26.3 feet wide by 11.6 feet tall.
What is the volume of this room?
You may be thinking...
What was expected?
Should the result be a larger or smaller number relative to the
size of the given dimensions?
Is the result physically meaningful?
The volume of the room is calculated to be 3.70x108 cm3.
Since the Berliner room is a large lecture room a large number is
expected.
Since centimeters are smaller than feet, a larger number is
expected than for the easy sample problem. (If the result had been
smaller than for the easy sample problem a likely mistake would have
been inverting the conversion factors.)
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