Nailed it!
Oh yeah, baby - I nailed it. We were livin' on fumes! FUMES!
A novice would look at the gauge and think that it registered slightly below 1/16th of a tank. And they would be WRONG. It takes an expert to know that it was really saying the tank was on fumes.
The fuel company delivered 251.2 gallons of fuel today. The tank has a capacity of 250 gallons. The fill pipe has a 2 inch diameter, and runs approximately 96 inches. Using the Academy's volume formula for cylinders (Volume = pi • radius² • height), the fill pipe holds approximately 301.59 cubic inches. Extending that with the Academy's cubic inch conversion formula for liters (inches / 61.023), the fill pipe holds approximately 4.94 liters, or 1.30 U.S. gallons.
So the very MOST the tank could have held when the headmaster caved in, was .10 U.S. gallons. Ha! We're living on the EDGE baby! NAILED IT!!
sigh... these are exciting times, are they not?
postscript - the Academy wishes to thank 14 year-old Rachael Tillery for providing all of today's formulas.
2 comments:
Oh, yeah. You da man!
But, um, I'm thinking maybe you may need to get out of the house a little more, cuz, Dude, your thing for fumes--that's approaching huffing. For shizzle.
I could be wrong here, but it's looking like a long winter for you and your fuel oil fumes. Good luck with that.
Jim, have you considered mental health therapy? In the meantime possibly you could use some of your enormous base of freetime to clean the top of the fuel tank - why not live on the edge next time in a clean environment...
Love Ya
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