How to Convert Liquid Measurements

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Steve Jones, I'm going to tell you something about converting liquid measurements. Now, we're going to look at liters to pints and obviously in the decimal system we have liters and milliliters. These are the units we normally use. In the system with pints we've got the pint, but of course above the pint we also have gallon and depending on whose gallon and there is a thing called a gill. But these are not use very much, so, we're going to stick to the pint and the liter. Now depends which side of the Atlantic you live on, if you live on the American side of the Atlantic, 1 liter will be 2.1134 American pints. If however you live on the British side of the Atlantic, the liter is only going to be 1.759 UK pints. In where the UK pint is about 5/8 of a liter, the US pint is half a liter. Now converting one to the other doesn't normally happen, because normally they are sold in these quantities. But we have to be very careful when converting, not to confuse this particular items. Also, when converting from pints to gallons, because the American pint is not the same as the British, neither will the gill or gallon be. So, providing weigh a very careful, I think in the, in America, you can use 1 liter to 2 pints. Wherein Britain we're going to use a UK pint should be 5/8 of a liter."