Question

The capacity of one sachet pure water is 500ml. How many sachet of pure water is needed to fill a barrel of 5,685 litres capacity?​

Answer 1

11370 sachet

Explanation:

Answer 2

11370 sachets

Explanation:

Given parameters:

Capacity of one sachet of pure water = 500ml = 500 x 10⁻³L

Unknown:

Number of sachet of pure water needed to fill a barrel of 5685liters + /

Solution;

To find the number of sachet;

500 x 10⁻³L will fill one sachet of pure water;

For 5685 liters, we would require y sachet of pure water ;

500 x 10⁻³y = 5685

0.5y = 5685

y =
`(5685)/(0.5)` = 11370 sachets