The Negative 40 Mystery Solved.

Okay, you go online because you want to convert the fahrenheit temperture to celsius you enter -40 cesius and the answer comes out -40 fahrenheit. You say to yourself that can't be right so you try again  with another webpage just to find that still -40 fahrenheit equals -40 celsius.Well, believe it or not : that is correct.

Suppose two cars are traveling in the same direction one car going 30 MPH and another at 60 MPH .The car going 60 MPH will evenually met the car going 30 MPH. The 60 MPH will go on but the two cars did meet.Everything has a midpoint.Read on...

Now suppose you wanted to try some recipes from a book your friend gave you ,but there are two problems : The tempertures are in celsius and you do not have a computer handy but just have a regular calculator the one without any special math operations; What do you do?

Well, there are formulas that convert one temperture to another using fractions but since we're using calculators let's use the decimal equivalent. It's really easy.

To convert celsius temperture to fahrenheit take your calculator multiply the celsius temperture by 1.8  (notice the decimal point between the one and the eight) and then add 32 and that's it.

Now if you want to go the other way converting the fahrenheit temperture to celsius take your calculator subtract 32 first then divide by 1.8
       
 F=  (1.8 x C) + 32       C=(F-32) / 1.8
IMPORTANT: Always do the math operations in the parentheses (brackets) first, not doing so will give the wrong answer.
Why do things the hard way when there are easier ways ?.Read on...

The link below is a conversion calculator site and their formulas use fractions but as we have found out using the decimal equivalents are easier and a lot easier to remember.
 click here for temperture conversion calculator