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Table 1-7 shows some old measures of liquid volume. To complete the table, what numbers (to three significant figures) should be entered in (a) the wey column, (b) the chaldron column, (c) the bag column, (d) the pottle column, and (e) the gill column, starting from the top down? (f) The volume of 1 bag is equal to 0.1091 m3. If an old story has a witch cooking up some vile liquid in a cauldron of volume 1.5 chaldrons, what is the volume in cubic meters?
Table 1-7 Problem 36
wey | chaldron | bag | pottle | gill | |
1 wey = | 1 | 10/9 | 40/3 | 640 | 120 240 |
1 chaldron = | |||||
1 bag = | |||||
1 pottle = | |||||
1 gill = |
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