1. Gold alloys are used to make jewelery are measured by a symbol, such as 18K, indicating karats. What is used as a measure or the karats for pure gold?

2. Inthe musical time signature 3/4, the 3 indicates three beats each measure. What does the 4 indicate?

3. The number 4 is significant in naming a female horse. A filly is a female horse less than 4 years old. What is the name given to a female horse more than 4 years old?

4. Relative humidity is given a percentage, such as 45%. The percentage gives the ratio of what two measurements?

5. One of the numbers used to describe photographic film is an ASA number, such as ASA 100 or ASA 200. What dose the ASA number indicate?

6. The size of a shotgun is given in terms of its guage. What is the meaning to 12 guage?

7. The pH number is used to discuss acid rain and to indicate whether soil is acidic or alkaline. A neutral solution that is neither acidic nor alkaline has what pH number?

8. In human beings, each cell (except the egg and sperm cells) contain how many chromosomes?

9. New air conditioners ordinarily have a tag with an EER ratingm such as 8.0 EER. EER stands for energy efficiency ratio, so that 8.0 should be interpreted as the ratio 8:1. What does each of the two numbers in the ratio represent?

10. On many ships, time is signaled by the ship's bell. What is the significance of eight bells?

11. A hurricane has wind speeds of 117 km/h and above (more than 74 mph). What is the name given to winds with wind speeds of 39-49 km/h (21-31 mph)?

12. Oil production is generally measured in barrels. One barrel of oil contains how many litres (or gallons)?

13. Passenger ships are usually measured in terms of gross tonnage, which is a measure of volume rather than weight. What does it mean to say that the gross tonnage of a ship is 20 000?

14. The specific heat of water is 1. What is the meaning of a specific heat of 0.5 for a substance?

15. In adults, cholesterol levels under 200 are generally desirable. what does a cholesterol level of 200 mean?

16. Bicycle sizes are given in inches. What does it mean to say a bicycle is a 26" bicycle?

17. A number 2 1/2 pencil contains more of what common substance mixed with graphite in the lead than does a number 2 pencil?

18. Golf clubs are named using numbers and material, such as a number 2 wood or a number 5 iron. As numbers increase, does the loft increase or decrease?

19. In the manufacture of whiskey, numbers are used to indicate the proof. Specifically, what does 80 proof mean?

20. In textbooks, ordinarily on the page with the copyright information, there often appears a sequence of numberals beginning with 10. What would the sequence 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 indicate?

21. Geologists break the Earth's history into eras, periods, and epochs, not uniform length. Which of the three divisions of time is about 50 million years?

22. A metronome is often used to help piano students. What does a metronome setting of 120 mean?

23. What do the numbers 20-30 mean as a result of a vision test?

24. Lawn fertilizer is ofter described by using three numbers, such as 25-10-5. What does the first number ordinarily indicate?

25. The size of a juice or vegetable can is given by numbers such as 1, 2, or 3. A number 2 can contains how many cups?

26. Automobile tire sizes are often given by a letter and a set of numbers, such as H 70-15. The 15 means the tire fits a wheel of 15 inches in diameter. what does the 70 indicate? (NOTE: Some tires now have metric sizes like 165-13. The first part is in millimetres, but the second is still in inches.)

27. One of the numbers used in a weather report gives the dew point. What does it mean to say dew point is 36 degrees?

28. What does a gasoline octane rating of 93 mean?

29. The location for receicing a particular station on a radio dial is indicated by a number, such as 102.1 or 107.9 on the dial. What does this number represent?

30. One of the numerals found on a package of light bulbs indicates lumens. How many watts (40, 60, 75, 100, or 150) are needed to yield an output of 860 lumens?

There ya go, all done. Please try to answer them all. Have fun and thanks.

1. Gold alloys are used to make jewelery are measured by a symbol, such as 18K, indicating karats. What is used as a measure or the karats for pure gold?

24K?

2. Inthe musical time signature 3/4, the 3 indicates three beats each measure. What does the 4 indicate?

The quarter note gets one beat.

3. The number 4 is significant in naming a female horse. A filly is a female horse less than 4 years old. What is the name given to a female horse more than 4 years old?

mare

7. The pH number is used to discuss acid rain and to indicate whether soil is acidic or alkaline. A neutral solution that is neither acidic nor alkaline has what pH number?

7

8. In human beings, each cell (except the egg and sperm cells) contain how many chromosomes?

48?

12. Oil production is generally measured in barrels. One barrel of oil contains how many litres (or gallons)?

55 gallons?

19. In the manufacture of whiskey, numbers are used to indicate the proof. Specifically, what does 80 proof mean?

Means it's 40% alcohol

22. A metronome is often used to help piano students. What does a metronome setting of 120 mean?

120 beats per minute.

23. What do the numbers 20-30 mean as a result of a vision test?

Let me try to say this right. It means that what you can see at 20 feet someone else with 20/20 vision can see at 30 feet.

27. One of the numbers used in a weather report gives the dew point. What does it mean to say dew point is 36 degrees?

Would that be the temperature needed for water to start condensing as dew?

29. The location for receicing a particular station on a radio dial is indicated by a number, such as 102.1 or 107.9 on the dial. What does this number represent?

megahertz

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4. Relative humidity (RH) is 100% times the ratio of the environmental vapour pressure (the fraction of the ambient pressure that is due to the fraction of water vapor in the air) to the saturation vapour pressure (the maximum vapor pressure that the air can support (non supersaturated) at a given temperature).

5. film speed: the arithmetic ASA system

6. The interior diameter of a shotgun barrel as determined by the number of lead balls of a size exactly fitting the barrel that are required to make one pound.
9. Cooling output (in Btu) divided by the power consumption (in watt-hours).
10. Eeight bells marked the end of the four hour watch.
11. Strong.

13 Total internal carrying capacity of a vessel expressed in measurement tons (one measurement ton = 100 cu. ft.). therefore the ship can carry up to 20000 measurement tons or 2000000 cu. ft
14- only guessing here but the definition of specific heat is:

the amount of heat necessary to move 1.00 gram of a substance 1.00 °C measured in Joules. So the answer I think is- 0.5 joules of heat required to move 1 gram of substance 1 degree C
15 200 cholesterol level is considered borderline- not sure if that's what is required
16 it has a wheel diameter of 26 "
17 also a guess I would say clay
21- period
24- the amount of nitrogen in the fertilizer
25- 2 1/2 cups
28- A fuel's "octane" rating is found by comparing it's knock characteristics with various mixtures of n-heptane and Isooctane. For example, a "octane" rating of 93 means that the fuel being tested, under standard conditions and running in a standard engine, performs the same as a mixture that is 93 parts Isooctane, and eight parts n-heptane. Numbers higher than 100 simply specify the potential to perform better that pure Isooctane. It is an anti-knock rating.

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