Changing Liters to Milliliters can be difficult, especially if you are not familiar with metric volume measurements. If you follow these few simple steps, however, you will quickly learn convert liters to milliliters and back.
Instructions
1. Learn the order of metric volume units. To learn convert liters to milliliters, you must first understand the order of metric volume units. It helps to memorize them. They are Kiloliter, hectoliter, decaliter, liter, deciliter, centiliter, and milliliter. It may be easier to memorize if you drop off the liter part and memorize it as Kilo, hecto, deca, liter, deci, centi, and milli.
2. Draw a number line with 8 points. Each point needs to cross the line as shown in the image. This will help you map out your metric volume units.
3. Write your measurements at the points below the line in the order that you learned them. (Kiloliter, hectoliter, decaliter, liter, deciliter, centiliter, and milliliter)
4. Write the measurement amounts in the following order above the line at each point. 1000, 100, 10, 1, .1, .01, .001
5. Observe the number line, and you will see that milliliter is three units to the right of liter. This means that you need to move your decimal point over three units to the right to convert liters to milliliters.
6. For practice lets start with four (4) liters. To convert it to decimal place, you would move a decimal point three places to the right and add zeroes in between. Your answer is 4000 milliliters. Likewise if you start with .o4 liters, to convert that number to milliliters, you would once again move the decimal point three places to the right. Your answer would be 40 milliliters.
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