The capacity of a beaker is 150mL. How many beakers can be filled from a 4L container?
1 L = 1000 ml
4 L = 4,000 ml
What do you think you need to do to solve this problem?
Multiply?
What are you going to multiply?
Remember, you're asked how many 150 ml beakers can be filled from a container holding 4,000 ml.
divide!
Right! :-)
To find out how many beakers can be filled from a 4L container, first, we need to convert the capacity of the beaker to liters, as the capacity of the container is already given in liters.
Given:
Capacity of a beaker = 150 mL
Capacity of the container = 4 L
To convert 150 mL to liters, we divide it by 1000:
150 mL ÷ 1000 = 0.15 L
Now, we can calculate how many beakers can be filled from the 4L container by dividing the container capacity by the beaker capacity:
4 L ÷ 0.15 L = 26.666...
Since we cannot have a fraction of a beaker, we need to round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, we can fill 26 beakers from a 4L container.
So, the answer is 26 beakers can be filled from a 4L container.