IXL | Multi-step problems with customary or metric unit conversions

A snack factory's most popular item is their extra-crunchy cheese puffs. The factory uses 50 grams of cheese powder for each bag of cheese puffs. How many bags of cheese puffs can the factory make with 10 kilograms of cheese powder?

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Ann fills her water bottle with 1 liter of water before school. She sets a goal to drink all of the water by the end of the school day. To stay on track, she drinks the same amount of water each hour for 8 hours. How many milliliters of water does Ann drink each hour?

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key idea

There are 1,000 milliliters in 1 liter.

solution

You need to find how many milliliters Ann drinks each hour. First, find how many milliliters of water she filled her bottle with.

There are 1,000 milliliters in a liter. So, Ann filled her water bottle with 1,000 milliliters of water.

Ann drinks the same amount of water each hour for 8 hours. Divide to find how much water she drinks each hour.

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125

Ann drinks 125 milliliters of water each hour.

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Lesson: Converting customary units

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