Suppose you have a 100-mL cup,a 300-mL cup, and a 500-mL cup. list two different ways you can measure exactly 1 L
1 L = 1000 mL
You can use the 500 mL cup twice.
500 + 500 = 1000
Or you can use the 300 mL cup 3 times and the 100 mL cup once.
300 + 300 + 300 + 100 = 1000
Let's notice that \(1L=2\cdot500mL=10\cdot100mL\)
Hence you can:
take 10 times the 100-mL cup
take 2 times the 500 mL cup.
Here are some other ways you could have done it:
use once the 500 mL cup, once the 300 mL cup and twice the 100 mL cup
use three times the 300 mL cup and once the 100 mL cup
* etc.