Water, water
When NASA operated the space shuttle program, each space shuttle astronaut was allotted 6 gallons of water a day. This restriction was necessary because water is heavy. Extra weight on the space shuttle required extra fuel for liftoff. Water also took up space that could be used for other payloads and experiments.
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- Estimate your daily water usage and express each amount in pints, cups and gallons.
- List all of the ways that you use water each day.
- Estimate how much you need for each use of water. Express your estimates in pints.
- Convert each estimate of pints to cups. Write the operation that’s needed to convert pints to
- Convert each estimate of pints to gallons. Write the operation that’s needed to convert pints
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