Question

Kathy prepares 4 containers containing 500 mL of orange juice each. How many containers of capacity 2 deciliters can be filled with the juice that Kathy prepares?

Answer 1

Amount of orange juice Kathy prepares
= $4\times 500\text{mL}$
= 2000 mL

Let us look at the conversion chart.


From the chart, we observe that to convert milliliters to deciliters, we divide by 100 as we have to go two units up.

$\therefore 1\text{mL}=\frac{1}{100}\text{dL}$

$\therefore 2000\text{mL}=\frac{2000}{100}=20\text{dL}$

Capacity of each of the new set of containers
= 2 dL

$\therefore \text{Total number of 2 dL containers}$
= $\frac{\text{Total quantity of juice}}{2\text{dL}}$
$=\frac{20\text{dL}}{2\text{dL}}$
$=10$

Thus, 10 containers of capacity 2 dL can be filled with the juice that Kathy prepares.