Question 13213: Shandra combined the following juices to make fruit punch: 800ml applt juice, 500ml pineapple juice, 1,000ml of orange juice and 200ml of grape juice. What was the total amount of fruit punch made in liters?
Answer by rapaljer(4671)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! First add up ALL the juice in ml. That would be 2500 ml. Then convert to liters.
I use what I call the "Metric Line", starting from left to right with
kilo, hecto, deca, basic unit (in this case liters), deci, centi, milli. When converting from one unit to another, you must move the decimal to the left or right, depending upon what you are converting to what. Count the number of units that you move from left to right or right to left, and move the decimal that many places to the left or right.
In this case you are converting from milli to the basic unit (liters), which is moving 3 places to the left. You must therefore move the decimal three places to the left, so 2500 ml = 2.5 liters.
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