Question

Water flows through a pipe at a rate of 540 milliliters per day. Express this rate of flow in pints per year. Round your answer to the nearest whole number .

Answer 1

To convert the flow rate from milliliters per day to pints per year, multiply the daily flow rate by the number of days in a year, then divide by the milliliters per pint and round to the nearest whole number.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question revolves around the conversion of a flow rate from milliliters per day to pints per year.

To find the flow rate in pints per year, we need to know the number of milliliters in a pint and the number of days in a year. There are 473.176 milliliters in a pint (U.S. liquid pint) and approximately 365 days in a year.

The calculation involves multiplying the daily flow rate by the number of days and then dividing by the number of milliliters in a pint. The formula looks like this:

• Flow rate (in pints/year) = (Flow rate in ml/day) × (Number of days in a year) / (Number of milliliters in a pint)

Plugging in the numbers:

Flow rate (in pints/year) = (540 ml/day) × (365 days/year) / (473.176 ml/pint)

=416.54

=416