Question

A truck transports 4 cars to an auto dealership. Each car has a gasoline tank capacity of six point four dekaliters. What is the total gasoline tank capacity of all of the cars in liters?

two point five six liters

twenty-five point six liters

two hundred fifty-six liters

two thousand five hundred sixty liters

Answer 1

@Yttrium

Answer 2

@briajosephs

Answer 3

Medal to who answers best

Answer 4

What you need to do is figure out how many liters are in a dekaliter

Answer 5

Just looking at the prefix - deka - you know that there are 10 liters are in a dekaliter.

Answer 6

Ok

Answer 7

With this information, you are able to see that in 6.4 dekaliters, there are 64 liters

Answer 8

(obviously you get that by moving over the decimal)

Answer 9

Now you know how many liters the tank can hold for ONE CAR. Just multiply 64 by 4 to get your answer.

Answer 10

64 isnt a result

Answer 11

Ohhh

Answer 12

Did you find the answer?

Answer 13

You know @yellowlegoguy99 , it just like this
\[total=4(6.4\times10^{10})\]
so what would be the result then?