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Excellent! My first entry. Let's see ... there are 1 thousand litres in a cubic meter {1 litre occupies a space of 10cm cubed} and 1 TRILLion litres in a cubic kilometer. Now the numbers get big! The World Ocean has an approximate volume of 1,347,000,000 cu/km {1.347

billion km3} Therefor 1 347 000 000 x 1 000 000 000 000 = 1.34700 x 1021 Another way of saying that is 1.35 SEXTILLION litres, which is 1.35 trillion-billion!! Good luck Iain

Iain you are a Legend. U saved your day and we would like to help us out with the following question. If we would fill these 1.35 quintillion litres in 1 Liter milkbottles,how many layers off milkbottles would it take to cover the earth?

Good Luck The three bro's WOW! Please see above! I had another look at the numbers of litres and had to revise by 3 decimal places! Sorry for the confusion. To answer your question: I have assumed that a 1 litre milk bottle would occupy a surfacearea of 10cm by 10cm. Planet Earth has a surface area of 510 million square Kilometers {including oceans} 1 square Km could hold 100 million bottles. So the entire planet could hold a layer of 51 000 000 000 000 000 bottles! That's is 51 Quadrillion bottles - however that is not nearly enough space. You would need about 26 411.76 (26 thousand layers) to use up all those litre bottles!

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