Anyone good at math?

[Jeremy McCreary]

No its all one if you go far enough away.

You're kidding, right?

 

[Chargeride]

Stop..youre making it two!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Stop..youre making it two!

Where's that Huh??? emoji when you need it?

 

[DaveMatthews]

Where's that Huh??? emoji when you need it?

 

[Chargeride]

 

[PCeBiker]

No its all one if you go far enough away.

I was looking up a Turkey Vulture flying in the distance yesterday, and noticed another one flying much further away.

Then the further bird started cornering and accelerating So Fast that it was clearly pulling 40-50 G's


Turned out it was a Starling pestering the Turkey Vulture

 

[ChezCheese:)]

To return to our moutons...

Gasoline is about €2 per litre. A euro is $1.15 today, so $2.30 per litre. 3.78 liters to a US gallon. So $2.30 x 3.78 = $8.69 per gallon.

So with these figures, what do I multiply together to have a single figure by which I can figure out the $ per gal cost? (I just want one step, not a bloody math meltdown! )

 

[PCeBiker]

So with these figures, what do I multiply together to have a single figure by which I can figure out the $ per gal cost?

You simply multiply whatever your cost per liter is by 3.78, and that will give you the cost per US gallon.

 

[PCeBiker]

The tricky part is converting to mpg when they sell gas buy the liter in Canada, and we measure in km now as well.


My dad wanted a single figure to convert his mileage per tank of gas to MPG that he was familiar with from before we switched to the metric system.

It was back in the early 80's about 3 years after we converted to the metric system, and we used the British gallon before we switched to metric, so,..

I told dad to just do his calculation for mpg using the km and liter numbers he had, then multiply that number by 2.82 to convert it to MPG

(I just spent ½ an hour trying to calculate that number again.
I gave up, and asked the robot,..)


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[ChezCheese:)]

You simply multiply whatever your cost per liter is by 3.78, and that will give you the cost per US gallon.

No, that will give me the price in euros per gallon. I'm trying to find the one factor that will give me the equivalent cost in dollars per gallon. In other words, do both the currency exchange AND change of units with just one factor.

 

[Chargeride]

Theres only 3.7 litres in a US gallon?

 

[DaveMatthews]

Theres only 3.7 litres in a US gallon?

Yup, almost 3.8

 

[Chargeride]

4.5 in an Empire gallon.

 

[PCeBiker]

Gasoline is about €2 per litre. A euro is $1.15 today, so $2.30 per litre. 3.78 liters to a US gallon. So $2.30 x 3.78 = $8.69 per gallon.

Both the price at your pumps, and the currency exchange are always changing, so I'm pretty sure you'll need to do the two calculations?

 

[PCeBiker]

4.5 in an Empire gallon.

Interestingly, there's 4.54 liters in an Imperial gallon, and there's 454 grams in a pound.

We used to have an Oldsmobile Delta 88 with a 454 engine and a four barrel carb.

It had a one gallon engine.
Imperial gallon.

 

[Chargeride]

How did Murica make it to the Moon, theres every chance they could have missed it by 14 furlongs

 

[PCeBiker]

Gasoline is about €2 per litre. A euro is $1.15 today, so $2.30 per litre. 3.78 liters to a US gallon. So $2.30 x 3.78 = $8.69 per gallon.

So with these figures, what do I multiply together to have a single figure by which I can figure out the $ per gal cost? (I just want one step, not a bloody math meltdown! )

You wrote your own equation and solved it.

(euro/liter × dollar/euro × 3.78) = dollar/gallon