How many gallons of water are needed to make 10 pounds of product?

Question

The recipe says that 1 liter of water makes 250 grams of product.

How many gallons of water are needed to make 10 pounds of product?

Is the liter the same as the quart?

Answer 1

 

10 lbs      1 kg             1000 g         1 liter          1.06 qt      1 gallon

------- x ---------- x -------------- x ---------- x ------------ x ----------- = 4.75336323

   1          2.23 lbs        1 kg             250 g          1 liter        4 qt

 

Roughly 4 gallons and 3 quarts

 

The middle conversion factor in bold is the recipe linking grams to liters;

Answer 2

The liter is certainly not the same as the quart. 

 

You have to know several conversion factors in this problem, e.g.

1000 grams = 1 kg = 2.2 lbs  

 

1 liter = 0.264172052 US gallons so 3.7854 = 1 gallon so 1 qt = 0.946352947 liters