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7.04 Convert units of liquid volume

Lesson

Are you ready?

Do you remember how to multiply by $1000$1000? Let's try a problem to practice.

Complete these number sentences.

  1. $8\times10=\editable{}$8×10=

  2. $80\times10=\editable{}$80×10=

  3. $800\times10=\editable{}$800×10=

  4. $8000\times10=\editable{}$8000×10=

Learn

Here are some relationships between the units for liquid volume:

  • $1$1 liter $=$= $1000$1000 milliliters
  • $1$1 quart $=$= $2$2 pints
  • $1$1 pint $=$= $2$2 cups
  • $1$1 cup $=$= $8$8 ounces

This video shows a strategy for converting between units of volume.

Vocabulary:

You might have noticed that liters and milliliters are spelled as 'litres' and 'millilitres' in the video. This is because that is the standard spelling in the metric system.

Apply

Convert $91$91 liters to milliliters.

  1. $91$91 liters = $\editable{}$ milliliters

Remember!

There are $1000$1000 milliliters in $1$1 liter.

This means that a liter is a thousand milliliters, and a milliliter is a thousandth of a liter.

Outcomes

MA.4.M.1.2

Convert within a single system of measurement using the units: yards, feet, inches; kilometers, meters, centimeters, millimeters; pounds, ounces; kilograms, grams; gallons, quarts, pints, cups; liter, milliliter; and hours, minutes, seconds.

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