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How many cups are there in 6.25*10^22 nL? Hint: nL is the abbreviation for nanoliter.

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A nano is essentially one-billionth or 1/1,000,000,000.
Since writing all these zeroes is inefficient and can easily lead into errors, we'll just use scientific notation instead.
A nanoliter is
10^(-9) liters.

So we have
6.25 * 10^(22) * 10^(-9) = 6.25* 10^(13) liters.

A liter is 4.22675 cups. So now we can multiply 4.22675 by 6.25 * 10^13.
Use a calculator... you get 26.4171875 * 10^13.

*Note: There may be slight precision errors. This is inevitable when you're working with very large numbers, as the smallest initial change can spiral into much larger differences.

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