How many joules are taken in by a man who eats 4000 calories of food each day? What is this person's average thermal power output?

4000 x 4.186 =16 744Joules, but I don't understend second question, Thank you for helping me.

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the conversion factor for calories (cal) and joules (J) is:
1 cal = 4.184 J
now to convert calories to joules, we multiply 4000 cal by 4.184 J / 1 cal so that the cal unit will be canceled, and the numerator will have the unit J:
4000 cal * 4.184 J / cal = 16736 J

hope this helps~ :)
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