does 17 gallons = 64.352 liters, does 50 Pounds = 22.6796 KILOgrams, and does 12 feet = 3.6576 meters? Thank you!
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Gallon
Three significantly different sizes are in current use: the imperial gallon defined as 4.54609 litres, which is used in the United Kingdom, Canada, and some Caribbean nations; the US gallon defined as 231 cubic inches (3.785 L), which is used in the US and some Latin American and Caribbean countries; and the least-used US dry gallon defined as 1⁄8 US bushel (4.405 L).
Pound
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement. A number of different definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is legally defined as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms.
Foot
The foot (pl. feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement. Since 1959, both units have been defined by international agreement as equivalent to 0.3048 meters exactly. In both systems, the foot comprises 12 inches and three feet compose a yard.
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17 US-gal * 3.785 L/US-gal = 64.345 L. Your answer is 7 mL off. This doesn't seem much when we talk about, say, water, but when it comes to unicorn blood it may well make all the difference between a flourishing country and state bankruptcy ;)
50 lb * 0.45359237 kg/lb = 22.6796185 kg
12 ft * 0.3048 m/ft = 3.6576 m