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Most people in Bntain use units llke the @] Use your lost answer to work out the approximate
litre and millilitre to measure liquids. 20 flutd ounces = i pint
number of litres in:
Some people still use Imperial units 8 pints = 1 gallon GJ If someone had to take a 5 ml spoonful l ~:M•l¥1EJ~
like fluid ounces, pints and gallons. a 2 gallons b 3 gallons c 4 gallons d 10 gallons?
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in pints ond in litres. of medicine three times o doy for a fortnight,
how much medicine would remoln in the 250 ml bottle? .: .
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. l t @] 82 glasses of lemonade were sold
t 1 at the school disco .
Each gloss had a capacity of 200 ml.
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How many 2 litre bottles of lemonade
were needed?
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1 2 3 4 5 8
number of pints
@] 330 ml cans of cola can be bought
in boxes of 24 cans
Use the graph to onswerITJ ond []] .
How much cola Is that altogether?
ITJ How many pints are approximately the some as:
a 2 litres b 3 litres c 4 litres?
CHALLENGE
[]] How many litres and tenths of o litre are approximately • Use reference books to find out
the same as: about these units of capacity.
a 2 pints b 3 pints c 5 pints d 1 gallon?
[]] Challenge
Gill: a unit of measurement equal to 0· 142 litres (or a quarter of a pint).
a 3·5 pints b 5-25 pints c 7 pints
Quart: a unit of volume equal to two pints.
Peck: a unit of volume equal to eight quarts.
Bushel: a unit of volume equal to about 36-4 litres (or eight gallons).
Jeroboam: a wine bottle holding the equivalent of four normal bottles
a 1·1 litres b 1 ·7 litres c 2·8 litres d 4·5 litres
(otherwise known as a double magnum).

a q litres b 13·5 litres c 18 litres d 45 litres

40ml Nine bottles 7.q2 litres