Students convert between units of liquid capacity (e.g., cups, pints, quarts, gallons; milliliters and liters) within the same system. They practice applying conversion factors accurately.
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Convert Units of Capacity and Volume (Liquid)
Grade 5 · Measurement Conversions · question 1 of 3
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What is the jug's reading in liters?
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Capacity can be renamed with a smaller or larger liquid unit.
Liters and milliliters stay in the same metric family.
1 gallon is 4 quarts, so 2 gallons are 8 quarts and 3 gallons are 12 quarts. The quarts row is the gallons row times 4: 6 gallons are 6 × 4 = 24 quarts.
A gallon holds more than a quart, so it takes 4 quarts to hold as much as 1 gallon.
Each gallon more adds 4 quarts more, so every column of the table is times 4.
Two steps work the same way: 1 gallon is 4 quarts and 1 quart is 4 cups, so 1 gallon is 4 × 4 = 16 cups.
To change to the smaller unit, multiply by the factor; to change to the bigger unit, divide by it.
Adding the factor instead of multiplying, and saying 2 gallons are 2 + 4 = 6 quarts.
Every gallon is 4 quarts, so 2 gallons are 2 × 4 = 8 quarts.
17 quarts = ___ pints — 34. Every quart is 2 pints, so 17 of them is 17 times 2: 34.
Let's convert capacity units. We have three gallons of juice — how many quarts is that?
First, remember the key fact: one gallon equals four quarts.
Picture one gallon split into four equal quart jugs.
We have three gallons, so we multiply: three times four quarts.
What is three times four?
Three times four is twelve.
Quick check: bigger unit to smaller unit — we multiply, and we get a bigger number. That makes sense!
So three gallons equals twelve quarts. Great work!
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