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MysteryGenius

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So I was cleaning out my room and found this question my HSC chemistry teacher had given us as holiday homework lol how nice of her. I don't know if you guys have seen this before, but here you go :) see if you can answer it. Also, include your working if you can.

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- Total volume of water on Earth = 1.3 x 10^9 km^3
-1cm^3 (or 1 mL) of water has the mass = 1g
- Hitler would have weighed 68kg, of which ~66% would have been water
- Standard glass of water = 350mL

How many of the water molecules in the glass of water would have been in Hitler's body?
(I can't believe I still have notes from the HSC around hahaha)
 

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So I was cleaning out my room and found this question my HSC chemistry teacher had given us as holiday homework lol how nice of her. I don't know if you guys have seen this before, but here you go :) see if you can answer it. Also, include your working if you can.



(I can't believe I still have notes from the HSC around hahaha)
All of them, plus a lot more. [logic]
 

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hahaha I completely forgot about this thread...

Can't be both in the glass and inside Hitler's body, so, none. Assuming the glass is outside of him...
I like the way you think :p

You have to calculate the fraction of (water molecules in Hitler's body) divided by (the number of water molecules in all the water on Earth) x (number of water molecules in a glass of water).
 

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I thought this was a Schrodinger's cat question.
 

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