There is only one bag potato chips left on the planet Earth. Ed and Trina have found it on the far side of ‘look out’ mountain with 2 grams of water inside the bag. The chips were soggy. Until another source of nutrients has been discovered they must share this bag of potato chips for their survival. The discovery of another source of nutrients is expected in 5 days. Therefore, Ed and Trina must proportion the potato chips appropriately. They felt positive about their survival rate because potato chips have a reasonable amount of calories. To their surprise however, they realized upon strategy planning for survival, that as a result of a prior catastrophic drought limiting potato chip production that the biosphere temperatures were rising 1 degree Celsius per day. This information drastically changed their survival strategy. In addition, after looking in the bag only one serving was left for their consumption. Based on the potato chip label and your knowledge from chapters 1 and 2 answer the following questions.
3. How many calories will be burned by the biosphere’s heat and how much will be left?
4. If the inorganic components were removed from the remaining potato chips what value per day would be left for consumption?
6. How much fat was available for consumption upon discovery of the potato chips?
To answer these questions, we need some additional information. Specifically, we need to know the calorie content of the serving of potato chips and the amount of fat in the serving. Unfortunately, the given information does not provide these details.
However, I can guide you on how to approach these questions once you have the required information:
3. To calculate the number of calories burned by the biosphere's heat, you would need to know the rate at which calories are burned per degree Celsius. If you have this information, you can simply multiply the temperature increase (1 degree Celsius per day) by the calories burned per degree Celsius to get the total calories burned. Subtract this from the initial calorie content of the potato chips to find out how many calories will be left.
4. If the inorganic components were removed from the remaining potato chips, you would need to know the proportion of inorganic components in the serving and their calorie content. Multiply the proportion of inorganic components by the calorie content of those components to find out how many calories would be left for consumption.
6. Similarly, to determine the amount of fat available for consumption, you would need to know the proportion of fat in the serving and the total amount of fat in the serving. Multiply the proportion of fat by the total fat content to find out how much fat is available.
Once you have the necessary information, you can perform the calculations to get the answers to these questions.