Male cockroaches were made to run at different speed son a miniature treadmill while their oxygen consumption was measured in an experiment reported in the scientific literature. In one hour the average cockroach running at the 0.08 km/hr consumed 0.8 mL of oxygen at 1 atm pressure and 24oC per gram of insect weight.
1. Determine the numbers of moles of O2 would be consumed in 1 hour by a 5.2 g cockroach moving at this speed?
2. This same cockroach is caught by a child and placed in a 1-quartfruit jar with a tight lid. Assuming the same level of continuous activity as in the research, will the cockroach consume more than 20% of the available O2 in a 48-hour period?