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In the standard system the conversion is that 1 gallon = 231 cubic inches and 1 inch = 2.54 cm, which makes a gallon = 3785.411784 millilitres exactly. For nutritional labeling on food packages in the US, the teaspoon is defined as exactly 5 ml, [22] giving 1 gallon = 3840 ml exactly. This chart uses the former.
To produce more food, in April 1939, the government devised a plan to pay farmers two pounds sterling per acre (0.4 ha) to plough up pasture and convert the land into cultivated cropland. [11] The poor state of British agriculture was matched by the poor nutrition and diet of many British people in the 1930s.
The reputed quart was a measure equal to two-thirds of an imperial quart (or one-sixth of an imperial gallon), at about 0.7577 liters, which is very close to one US fifth (0.757 liters). The reputed quart was previously recognized as a standard size of wine bottle in the United Kingdom, and is only about 1% larger than the current standard wine ...
2: two: 12: twelve (a dozen) 20: twenty: 3: ... If the tens digit is not equal to 1, ... two-thirds or 0.7 seven-tenths three-quarters or ...
Roughly a third of all food is lost or wasted from the U.S. food supply each ... About 200 million pounds of turkey are thrown out over the Thanksgiving holiday week, according to estimates from ...
For example, if 1 / 2 represents a half-dollar profit, then − 1 / 2 represents a half-dollar loss. Because of the rules of division of signed numbers (which states in part that negative divided by positive is negative), − 1 / 2 , −1 / 2 and 1 / −2 all represent the same fraction – negative one-half.
Two-thirds of Americans feel they pay "too much" in federal income taxes, and many say they see little value in return, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of ...
(pl. usu. stone) 14 pounds in weight (14 lb), normally used when specifying a person's weight ("My weight is twelve stone four", meaning 12 stone and 4 pounds; US "172 pounds") a small rock stoop A post or pillar, especially a gatepost. (Rare except in dialect). forwards bend of the spine bringing the shoulders in front of the hips