17 US customary cups in liters
Result
The conversion result is: 17 US customary cups is equivalent to 4.0220000205 liters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 17 US customary cups to liters?
We know (by definition) that: 1 uscup ≈ 0.2365882365 liter.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of liters.
1 uscup / 17 uscup ≈ 0.2365882365 liter / x liter
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x liter ≈ (17 uscup / 1 uscup) * 0.2365882365 liter → x liter ≈ 4.0220000205 liter
Conclusion:
17 uscup ≈ 4.0220000205 liter

Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 liter is equal to 0.248632519866493 times 17 US customary cups.
It can also be expressed as: 17 US customary cups is equal to 1 / 0.248632519866493 liters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: seventeen US customary cups is about four point zero one liters, or alternatively, a liter is about zero point two five times seventeen US customary cups.
Footnotes
[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).
Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.