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Express the volume of an olympic-sized swimming pool, 2,500,000 L, in more appropriate units.

publish date: 2023/12/27 21:06:36.501172 UTC

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2.5 ML
250 mL
2.5 kL
25000 GL

Correct Answer

2.5 ML

Explanation

You can represent the volume as 25 x 100,000 or 2.5 x 1000,000.  Choosing the second form helps to replace the million with the Mega unit prefix.  So, it can be written as 2.5 ML. 

Prefix Abbreviation Multiplicative Amount
giga- G 1,000,000,000 ×
mega- M 1,000,000 ×
kilo- k 1,000 ×
deci- d 1/10 ×
centi- c 1/100 ×
milli- m 1/1,000 ×
micro- μ 1/1,000,000 ×
nano- n 1/1,000,000,000 ×
pico- p 1/1,000,000,000,000 ×

Reference

Beginning Chemistry v. 1.0

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