Question

A water dispenser has a capacity of 20,000 milliliters. What is its capacity in liters?

Be sure to include the correct unit in your answer.

Answer 1

20

Explanation:

So to get 20 all you had todo was multiply 20,000 by 0.001, because milliliters converted into liters is 1 milliliter= 0.001 liters.

Answer 2

20 Liters

Explanation:

One way to look at it is that there are 1000 mL in one L. But I think a better way in general for unti conversions is to do it like this.

20000 ml *
`(1L)/(1000 mL)` Where you can just cancel out the units. Hopefully it made sense. If you were converting from L to ml you would use
`(1000 mL)/(1 L)`