Question

A fortnight is a charming english measure of time equal to 2.0 weeks (the word is a contraction of "fourteen nights"). that is a nice amount of time in pleasant company but perhaps a painful string of microseconds in unpleasant company. how many microseconds are in 4 fortnights?

Answer 1

In this question, you are asked to convert 2 weeks into microsecond. To answer this question you need to know how to convert weeks into days, hours, minutes, second, then millisecond. The calculation would be:

4fortnight x 2 (weeks/fortnight) x (7days/weeks) x (24 hours/day) x ( 60 minutes/hour) x (60 seconds/minute) x (1,000,000microsecond/second)= 4838400000000 or 4.384 $10^{12}$ microsecond