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vkkv

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14. 100 tons = 25,000 gallons?

Reply to silvershadow (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 02:11 PM

Feb 2014

100 x 2000 lbs ( 1 ton) = 200,000 lbs

water = "A pint a pound the world around"

200,000 lbs divided by 8 (8 pints to a gallon ) = 25,000 gallons...

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