A salt water swimming pool is 47.0 m long, 25.1m wide, and 2.79 m deep. If the pool is filled with salt water having a density of 1.06 g/ cm3, how many pounds of salt water are in the pool when it is filled?

Question

1 kg = 2.20 lb

I'm not sure how to approach this. I've tried converting the water density into kg, and then to lb, but that doesn't seem right. Any help on where to get started would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I would convert the dimensions of the pool to cm then find the volume of the pool in cm^3.
volume is length x width x depth.
Then mass H2O = volume in cc x density in g/cc.
Convert mass in grams to kg, then convert to lbs.