capacity is the amount that a container will hold
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Capacity is the amount that a container will hold.
Let’s see how many cups that this cylinder will hold.
The capacity of the cylinder is
6 cups.
Count with me as we pour the cups of
sugar in one-at-a-time.
1 cup
2 cups
3 cups
4 cups
5 cups
6 cups
sugar
These are the common measures
of capacity:
fluid ounce milliliter
cup liter
pint quart gallon
You can use the Big G to help remember equal measurements for capacity.
GallonQuartPintCups
GallonQuartPintCups
What do you buy by the gallon?
Quart? Pint? Cup?
One Gallon= 4 Quarts.
One Quart=2 pints
One pint = 2 cups
How many cups are in 2 pints?
How many cups are in 1 quarts?
What has more capacity 2 Quarts or 7 cups?
Liter
Kilo Liter centi milli
We use Liter and mL most.
What do you buy by the Liter?
One Liter is about equal to one quart.
About how many litersare there in one gallon?
About how many cupsAre there in one liter?
Susan has 15 quarts of soda. About how many liters is this?
Leonardo has a fish tank that holds 50 liters of water. 50 liters is approximately equal to how many gallons? About how many quarts is this?