Question

The largest of the Great Lakes is Lake Superior, which has a

volume of 12,230 km^3 (note that 1 dm^3 = 1 L)

What is this volume in liters?

Answer 1

The volume of Lake Superior in liters is 12,230,000,000,000,000 liters, obtained by converting the volume from cubic kilometers to liters.

Step-by-step explanation:

The volume of Lake Superior is given as 12,230 km3. Since 1 liter is equivalent to 1 cubic decimeter (dm3), we need to convert the volume in cubic kilometers to cubic decimeters before converting to liters. There are 1,000,000,000 cubic decimeters in one cubic kilometer (because there are 1,000 decimeters in a kilometer and the cube of 1,000 is 1,000,000,000). Therefore, to convert 12,230 km3 to liters, you multiply 12,230 by 1,000,000,000, yielding a volume of 12,230,000,000,000,000 liters.