A half-cup of ice cream contains about 200 food Calories. How much

power can be produced if the energy in a cup of ice cream is expended

over a period of 10 minutes (600 seconds) ? Each food Calorie is equal to 4,184 joules. Write your answer in watts and then in horsepower

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Brisa Booker

14 March, 06:45

A half-cup of ice cream contains about 200 food Calories. How much

power can be produced if the energy in a cup of ice cream is expended

over a period of 10 minutes (600 seconds) ? Each food Calorie is equal to 4,184 joules. Write your answer in watts and then in horsepower

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Evan Lam · Answer 1

Fisrt convert the 200 food calorie into joules, since there are 4184 joule per 1 food calorie, 200 food calorie x (4184 joule / cal) = 836800 J

P = work / time

P = 836800 J / 600 s = 1394.67 J/s = 1394.67 W

P = 1394.67 W (1 hp / 745.7 W) = 1.87 hp

A half-cup of ice cream contains about 200 food Calories. How muchpower can be produced if the energy in a cup of ice cream is expendedover a period of 10 minutes (600 seconds) ? Each food Calorie is equal to 4,184 joules. Write your answer in watts and then in horsepower

A half-cup of ice cream contains about 200 food Calories. How much

power can be produced if the energy in a cup of ice cream is expended

over a period of 10 minutes (600 seconds) ? Each food Calorie is equal to 4,184 joules. Write your answer in watts and then in horsepower