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Question from Melanie: If the hotel pan measures 12 inches long x 5 inches wide x 6 inches tall, how many quarts of soup will the hotel pan hold? |
Hi Melanie,
The volume of the pan is its length, times its width, times its height so it is $12 \times 5 \times 6$ cubic inches. Suppose the answer is $N$ cubic inches. Now you need to know the number of cubic inches in a quart. I don't remember the conversion so I would have to look it up which I would do using Google. Type What is 1 quart in cubic inches? into the google search window and google responds with 1 US liquid quart is 57.75 cubic inches. Thus thevolume of the hotel pan in quarts is
\[(12 \times 5 \times 6) \mbox{ cubic inches }\times \frac{1}{57.75}\frac{\mbox{ quarts }}{\mbox{ cubic inches }}. \]
Penny
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