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Nice point, but it is really the typical elementary school topic "one cubic centimeter of water is one gram, one cubic decimeter is one kilograms, one cubic meter is one THOUSAND!!! kilograms" Then in highschool it is used for physics and unit of measurements and everyone knows that you can just weight milk and water when you cook with 1kg = 1liter



Normal people don’t do that. They just know that a gallon is a gallon, a meter is a meter, a pound is a pound, etc. People rarely have need to convert between mass and volume. And they don’t weigh their milk or water.


Because if they had to, they'd rather find a jug than a calculator.


Also most people (in the US at least) do not have kitchen scales!




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