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Homework Statement
When gasoline(density=.7297 g/cm^3) is burned, it gives off 5.00 times 10^4 J/g(its heat of combustion). If a car's engine is 25% efficient, how much gasoline per hour must it burn in order to develop an output of 50.0hp. 1hp=746 W
Homework Equations
P=W/t
e=W/Qh
The Attempt at a Solution
I believed I was solving for time so what I did was I used P=W/t
then I rearranged it to t=W/P and plugged 5.00 times 10^4 for w and 746 times 50 for P and it didn't get me the right answer because the answer is 10.7 kg/h