How to Change Liters to Milliliters

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Steve Jones, and I'm going to tell ya how to change liters into milliliters. Well, the first thing to understand is the basic system, where we get that one liter is, in fact, one thousand milliliters, and we need to get the correct abbreviations. One liter....liter is just an "l", and a milliliter is little "m", little "l". This is, in fact, the easiest process, or the easier process, because for every liter, if we have 5.6 liters, we simply have to multiply it by a thousand. So it's going to be 5.6 times 1000 milliliters. Now, 5.6 times 1000 is best done by simply moving the decimal place. If I write 5.6 there, and look at this decimal place here, I know that if I multiply a number by 10, I simply move the decimal one place to the right. If I want to move it...if I want to multiply by a hundred, I move it two decimal places to the right. And, if I want to multiply by a thousand, I'll move it three decimal places, and so on. This goes on forever. So I have to put naughts here, because there are no zeros there. And my decimal point, now, is going to come there. And this now becomes across my comma, for my thousands. So, 5.6 liters is actually five thousand six hundred milliliters. So, that is how we change liters into milliliters."