Question

an olympic swimming pool holds 2,500 kilo liters of water. after swimmers splash water out of the pool,there are 24,500 hectoliters of water left in the pool. how many hectoliters of water did the swimmers splash out of the pool?

Answer 1

The swimmers splashed 500 hectoliters of water out of the pool.

Explanation:

Let's convert everything to liters so it's simpler:

1 kL = 1,000L

and

1 hL = 100L,

so:

2,500*1000 = 2,500,000

2,500 kL = 2,500,000L

and

24,500*100 = 2,450,000

24,500 hL = 2,450,000L

2,500,000 - 2,450,000 = 50,000L splashed out of the pool.

50,000/100 = 500hL splashed out of the pool.