Capacity Quiz

Peter has to take 3 spoons of multivitamin syrup each day. If the capacity of the spoon is 18 mL, what quantity of syrup will be taken by him in a week?

1. 378 mL
2. 38.7 mL
3. 126 mL
4. 150 mL

Answer: (a) 378 mL

A water storage tank is filled with 40 L of water. On the first day of the week, 5 L 245 mL was used. On the next day, 10 L 396 mL was used. How many mL water is left in the tank?

1. 25344 mL
2. 24359 mL
3. 34755 mL
4. 29561 mL

Answer: (b) 24359 mL

34.54 L of juice was transferred into a barrel containing 15 L 30 mL of juice. What is the total volume of juice in the barrel?

1. 49.57 L
2. 48.98 L
3. 49.84 L
4. 50.04 L

Answer: (a) 49.57 L

Diana's teacher asked her to find the greatest amongst the following values: 12 haL, 250000 mL, 2000 L, 16000 dL

1. 12 haL
2. 250000 mL
3. 2000 L
4. 160000 dL

Answer: (d) 160000 dL

Henry has a jar filled with juice. After he poured 420 mL of juice in each of the 6 glasses he was yet left with 280 mL of juice. What was the capacity of the jar?

1. 2.08 L
2. 2800 mL
3. 700 mL
4. 1.7 L

Answer: (b) 2800 mL

An oil tank contains 480 L of oil when it is 3/7th full. How many cans of 120 mL can be filled completely from the oil tank when the tank is full?

1. 10
2. 11
3. 8
4. 9

Answer: (d) 9

A large jug can hold 6.84 L of apple juice. If small glasses of capacity of 160 mL are used to serve the juice to the guests, then how many guests can the juice be served, if the glasses are filled to 3/4th capacity and the jug was 2/3rd full while serving to the guests?

1. 57
2. 54
3. 38
4. 40

Answer: (c) 38

A pizza pasta sauce bottle holds 1 L 545 mL of sauce. If Danny uses 55 mL of sauce everyday and refills it by 10 mL everyday, then in how many days will the bottle of sauce be empty?

1. 33
2. 35
3. 34
4. 36

Answer: (b) 35

Containers A and B had 18 L and 6 L of water, respectively. When an equal amount of water was poured into both containers, container A had twice the volume of water as container B. What was the least amount of water that was poured into each container?

1. 60 mL
2. 6 mL
3. 6000 mL
4. 600 mL

Answer: (c) 6000 mL

16 children went for a summer camp. Each child consumed 0.4 L of orange juice every day during the camp. If 10 more children joined the camp and the daily consumption of juice of each child went down by 50 mL, then what was the total consumption of juice in a week?

1. 63.7 L
2. 9.1 L
3. 39.2 L
4. 56 L

Answer: (a) 63.7 L