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I think I got it right too. You can save time trying to do the grains/hogshead conversion if you make an educated guess on what the clear, odorless liquid is and find out it's density. You get the same answer.

Oh yeah, I'm a first time poster, long timer lurker. Hi everyone.

Let me re-remind you about the site http://www.onlineconversion.com/ which will help with your conversion problems...

And I'm not sure why you're trying to guess the density of liquid, as that's listed in the conundrum itself.

Well, it's the most obvious clear, odorless liquid. It's also a way to check your answer. Do with it what you want

This is why (well, part of why) I disliked engineering so much: having to deal with conversions. Metric conversions would be fine, as there are 6 basic measurements that can give you all the others (gram, meter, second, candella, Coulomb (I think; it's a unit of charge) and one other I'm blanking on).

Anyway, this did hurt my head, but there are websites that list conversion rates for all the units. Fathoms, rods and furlongs are all units of length (obviously). A grain is a measure of mass; a hogshead is a unit of volume. A kip is a unit of weight. My personal process in this is convert them all to the units I want, combine, then convert when that doesn't work. I think that's how I was taught. I did get a 3-digit number, but one I have little confidence in. Also remember to round up, as the question says so.

And if you ask another conversion problem that this, I'll kip your feet and chain your furlongs to a pound-foot! (I like math, but this? This is physics. I dislike physics.)

Oh, and you found the real density of the liquid? I should've guessed it was that, but searching for these archaic measurements fried my brain so much I'm impressed it still functions.

Another hint: If you do not wish to use the online conversion site posted earlier, dictionary.com has a handy list of conversions which contains most of the measurements listed. Just go there and search for "measurement".

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got it! A three digit answer! never won a lenny before, but this question is right up my ally.

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I could not not do it

i found it quite simple once I started looking at it
Heres what I did:
I converted the volume to US hogsheads
I realzed that density = mass/volume...so..yea..think about it for a sec
I converted to kips and got a three digit number.

Whee - easy! I REALLY hope this isnt giving too much away

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Its not about what you do, but about how you go on doing it.

It turns out that I'm metric intolerant outside of the chem lab. But I still got it anyway.

1 kip = 1000 pounds