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1.   

Our current elevation above sea level (in meters):

3

2.   

The area of an average adult’s skin (in square meters):

0

3.   

Number of gallons of ice cream consumed in Utah last year:

7

4.   

Volume of Earth (in cubic meters):

21

5.   

Number of tennis balls that could fit into this room:

6

6.   

Number of letters in the alphabet:

1

7.   

How many dollars would each person on this planet possess if there were a "mole" of dollars to distribute?

14

8.   

Number of births per year in world:

8

9.   

Number of frames in a 2-hour long motion picture:

5

10.    

Number of stars viewable to the naked eye on a clear, dark night:

3

11.    

Number of hairs on the average human head:

5

12.    

Ratio of age of universe to age of a human lifespan:

8

13.    

Height of a piece of paper if it could be folded in half 50 times (in meters):

11

14.    

Number of cellular phones currently used in the U.S.:

8

15.    

Number of motor vehicles in the world:

9

16.    

Total length of wire on spool (sitting on desk in this room), in meters:

2

17.    

Tons of gravel held in the back of a dump truck:

1

18.    

Time it takes light to travel from Mars to Earth (in seconds):

3

19.    

Number of cockroaches in the U.S.:

12

20.    

Mass (in kilograms) of exhaust produced by one tank of gasoline burned by a large truck/SUV:

2

21.    

The power output of the Sun is 400-trillion-trillion Watts.  How many incandescent light bulbs would be necessary to output energy at the same rate?

25

22.    

Time (in seconds) spent sleeping over an entire lifetime:

9

23.    

Fraction of one year equal to one second:

-6

24.    

Total energy exhausted by one person in a lifetime (in food calories):

5

25.    

Area (in square meters) of entire human population if everyone crowded together:

9

26.    

Total area of Earth (in square kilometers):

8

27.    

Gallons of soft drinks consumed in the U.S. each year:

10

28.    

Speed at which human hair grows (in meters per second):

-7

29.    

The thickness of rubber (in meters) lost with each rotation of a car’s tire on the road:

-11

30.    

Number of electrons in a liter of water:

27