Basics
You're recarpeting your living room. One wall measures 30' while the opposite wall measures 25'. How much carpet would I need?
750 sqft
Slab pour with a block out in the middle. Slab pour is 100' by 100' with a depth of 6''. Block out where NO CONCRETE will go, is 10'x10'. Each truck holds 8 yards. How many trucks will I get?
Trucks = 22.91 trucks or 23 trucks in total.
If elevation A. is 110.75 and elevation B. is 89.05 which is the higher elevation?
Elevation B. Up is down, down is up.
If I want to pave 1 mile of road, that is 13' across, with a density of 148lbs per cubic foot, how many tons of asphalt do I need, if I'm paving at 10'' deep?
468.42 tons of asphalt.
How many taste buds does an average human have?
10,000
You're retiling your backyard Olympic sized pool. It's measuring 100' from one end to the other. The pools width is 48'. One box of tiling can cover 10' square feet. How many boxes of tile will I need for this?
480 boxes of tile.
Round deck pour. Going straight across the deck, from one side to the direct opposite side, is measuring 90'. A depth is 8'' deep. How much concrete should I order?
90 divided by 2 = 45'
8'' = .67
Pi X 45 X 45 X .67 divided by 27 = 157.86 yards
How do I find the difference in 2 elevations?
Subtraction!
How many pounds are in 1 ton of asphalt?
2000lbs.
Area of a triangle with a height of 18' and a base of 34' feet.
306 ft2
You're digging out a footing for a barn to be built on your property. The layout is 18'7'' by 30'9'' with a depth of 4'. How many cubic yards of soil are you removing?
2,285.34 ft3.
I'm going to pour square columns. I need to get 20 poured by the end of the day. The columns measure 1'9'' and they're 17' tall. How much concrete should I order?
38.56/37 yards.
What does HI stand for? and what is that?
Height of instrument. It's the very first shot you take on a story pole/grade rod added into your existing elevation.
5 miles, 20' across, with a depth of 2''. Density is at 175lbs. One truck can bring 3 tons of asphalt in 1 trip. How many trucks will I need?
291 trucks.
Where can you find the world’s most crooked street?
San Francisco, USA
You're residing your house. Each sheet of plywood is 8'. The side of your house is measuring 40' tall by 22'6'' wide. Each sheet of plywood is $8.50 a sheet. How much will it cost you?
$956.25
Round fancy columns will be poured today. The columns radius is 2'3''. The height is 25'. How many trucks will show up, if one truck can bring 4 yards at one time? Each truck takes 30 minutes to pour. So how long will this take if I have to pour a dozen columns?
Columns = 56.25 yards
Trucks = 14.06/15 trucks
Time = 450 minutes or 7.5 hours.
What's a grade rod read in? Tenths? Inches/feet?
Tenths! Tenths are more accurate with dirt work compared to regular inches/feet.
3/4 of a mile going 100' across, density is set to be 203lbs, with a depth of 8''. How many tons of asphalt do I need to order?
2,992.22 tons of freaking asphalt.
55.55 yards
You're putting new insulation into your wall spaces. The wall space is 2' wide, 10' tall, and 15' across. Each fiberglass sheet measures 3 feet across and 8' long with a thickness of 2''. How much fiberglass will you need?
300 cubic feet of wall to be filled.
Fiberglass - 4.08 cubic feet
Total needed - 73.52 sheets of fiberglass.
Slab pour with a twist. The slab is going to be 110' long by 80' wide with a depth of 9''. There will be 15 CIRCULAR block outs for reinforcing steel to be placed. The block outs RADIUSES will be 1'2''. How much concrete do I need?
Slab (before block outs) = 244.44 yards
Block outs = .10 X 15 = 1.5 YARDS.
Total concrete needed - 242.94 yards of concrete.
1.7% drop.
Your company wants to non stop pave 8 miles. They're paving 4'' down, 20' across. There are 2 batch plants to go with. One has asphalt with a density of 180lbs per cubic foot, their trucks can also deliver 20 tons at a time. Batch plant B. has a density of 170lbs per cubic foot. Their trucks can bring 25 tons a time. Who is the most efficient?
Plant A. 2787.84 TONS & 139.39 trucks needed.
Plant B. 2632.96 TONS & 105.31 trucks needed.
Plant B wins.
What is a group of cats called?
A clowder