I thought it was 300mL since I'm a little familiar with teapot sizes and a 300mL pot holds about one small glass of water... and 8oz is a "serving" of a liquid drink.
This is not the best answer. 8oz is 237mL so the best answer is 250mL.
@futurebird We have two 2-cup Pyrex measuring cups with cup fractions marked on one side and milliliters on the other, so the conversion is reinforced frequently.
@futurebird
Isn't it 227? The number I have stored in my head is 454, which is g to the pound. Since a pint's a pound and a mL of water weighs a gram, I assumed 8 fl. oz. (half a pint) would weigh half of 454 g and contain 227 mL.
@futurebird I literally have no idea, imperial measurements are a complete mystery to me, I just approximately know how much a foot is cause I know 10 ft is about 3 meters and I know my height in feet and inches cause I lived in the UK for a few years haha
@futurebird I had the wrong idea yet guessed right. I thought 8oz was close to a small can of soda (330ml), so I would've guessed 350 if I'd gone with my first instinct, but then I started doubting and went with a gut feeling instead.
@futurebird My high school chemistry teacher wrote on the board —
“JALMTAQ”
because a liter is
“Just A Little More Than A Quart”
and this has served me well for the last 45 years
@futurebird none of the above because ounces are mass and ml are volume (I know what you mean really, and I have no clue off the top of my head, does doing sums in my head count as looking it up?)
@futurebird the sum i would do is that there are 20 fl oz in a pint, and 1.76 pints (or 35 fl oz) in a litre, so 1 fl oz is a bit under 30 ml, so 8 fl oz is a bit under 240 ml, so the answer is 250.
@futurebird Many years of studying soda and beer cans have taught me that 12 fluid ounces is close enough to 350 ml for government work. And I know a liter is just over a quart.
@futurebird oh yes, had to deal with that all my work life... Built a factory for plastic film based on a machine from Germany, the machine was all metric (imperial would have added $5 million in cost). We converted the length of spools from meter to yard, then to pounds of plastic. Sold it to Korea, where they converted pounds to Kg, then to meter again. And then wondered why there always were errors in bookkeeping
@futurebird So, you see, back in the previous millennium, the Americans and the British were so confused by the units that they used that they had to invent devices called computers to help them figure them out, and that's why we have ceiling cat.