I am trying to find the volume in gallons of an ice sheet that is 1.7 million square kilometers.

Question

This assignment is for Math in Society 107.

Answer 1

The difficulty here is that we don't know how thick the sheet is.  

 

You see, one metric tonne of water has a volume of one cubic meter (1 tonne water ≡ 1 m³) and one metric tonne is 1000 kilograms (1 tonne = 1000 kg).  Without that third dimension, there is no way to answer the question.

 

If you have the thickness of the sheet, try working with this: there are 1000000000 kiloliters in 1 kilometers cubed.

 

 

From there, use the kiloliters to gallons formula.  kl * 264.17

 

Note that ice and water have the same volume so there is no change in the number.

 

Hopefully this will help you answer this question.