Question

A student measures the volume of a liquid in a graduated cylinder of 250ml capacity, and finds the volume to be 250ml. The student transfers the liquid to a graduated cylinder whose capacity is 500 ml. What will be the volume of the liquid?

Answer 1

When the student transfers the liquid from the 250 ml graduated cylinder to the 500 ml graduated cylinder, the volume of the liquid remains the same. Therefore, if the student initially measured the volume to be 250 ml, upon transferring it to the larger graduated cylinder, the volume of the liquid will still be 250 ml. The capacity of the graduated cylinder does not affect the actual volume of liquid.