Question

Mary bought a 10-ounce bottle of cough syrup. If each dose is 1/4 ounce, how many doses are in the bottle?

Answer 1

4 doses /oz * 10 oz = 40 doses

Answer 2

10 peanuts/bag
7 bags/ box'
20 boxes/crate
10 crates/truck
how many peanuts/ truck?
(10 peanuts/bag)(7 bag/box) bag cancels so
70 peanuts/box
Get it?
now so
10 peanuts/bag * 7 bags/ box * 20 boxes/crate * 10 crates/truck
bag cancels and box cancels and crate cancels and we have
10*7*20*10 peanuts/truck :)
14,000 peanuts/truck?

Answer 3

kits, cats, sacks and wives -- how many were going to St. Ives?

Answer 4

Yes !! :)
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StIvesProblem.html

Answer 5

But Osarhemen Igbinosun,
Best stick to the unit conversions and skip the St. Ives trip for the moment.

Answer 6

I happened to be covering this subject with Sea Scout navigators today:
Miles, nautical miles, degrees of arc, minutes of arc, minutes of great circle = nautical mile, knots, miles per minute, meters per second, time in hours, minutes, seconds ......