Thermodynamics conversion

Question

Convert 35 pints to cavan

Answer 1

The "caván" is a unit of dry capacity (or dry volume) originating from the Philippines in the 19th century and is given by an online article to be equal to 75151448 cubic millimeters (that is, a cube with each edge at 422 millimeters).

With 1 liter equal to 1000000 cubic millimeters, take the ratio: 

75151448 mm³/1 caván

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1000000 mm³/1 liter

Rewrite this ratio as 75.151448 liters per caván.

Next set down the ratio:

75.151448 liters/1 caván

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1 liter/2.11337642 us pints

Simplify this last ratio to 158.8232981 us pints for 1 caván.

Finally, equate 158.8232981 us pints/1 caván to 35 us pints/x and obtain x as 0.2203706913 caván.

35 us pints will then occupy roughly 1 fifth of a caván.