Question

A fountain can hold 53,000 deciliters of water. How many kiloliters is that

Answer 1

The answer is 5.3 kL.

Deci-means one-tenth of a unit and Kilo means 1,000 units
The unit we are talking about here is liter. So combining the terms we would have:

1 liter = 10 deciliters
1 kiloliter =1,000L

So taking this into account, we can convert 53,000 dL into kL:

`53,000dL` x
`(1L)/(10dL)` x
`(1kL)/(1,000L)`

= 5.3kL

So there are 5.3kL in 53,000dL