12 US gallons in US quarts

Conversion

12 US gallons is equivalent to 48 US quarts.^[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 12 US gallons to US quarts?

We know (by definition) that: $1 usgallon \approx 4 usquart$

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of US quarts.

\frac{1 usgallon}{12 usgallon} \approx \frac{4 usquart}{x usquart}

Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown $x$ :

x usquart \approx \frac{12 usgallon}{1 usgallon} * 4 usquart \to x usquart \approx 48 usquart

Conclusion: $12 usgallon \approx 48 usquart$

12 US gallons is equivalent to 48 US quarts

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 US quart is equal to 0.0208333333333333 times 12 US gallons.

It can also be expressed as: 12 US gallons is equal to $\frac{1}{0.0208333333333333}$ US quarts.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: twelve US gallons is about zero US quarts, or alternatively, a US quart is about zero point zero two times twelve US gallons.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Us Gallons

"The US gallon is legally defined as 231 cubic inches, which is exactly 3.785411784 liters.[2][3] A US liquid gallon of water weighs about 8.34 pounds or 3.78 kilograms at 62 °F (17 °C), making it about 16.6% lighter than the imperial gallon. There are four quarts in a gallon, two pints in a quart and 16 US fluid ounces in a US pint, which makes the US fluid ounce equal to 1⁄128 of a US gallon."

Wikipedia page of US gallons

Us Quarts

"All traditional U.S. length and volume measures have been legally standardized for commerce by the international yard and pound agreement of 1959 using the definition of 1 yard being exactly equal to 0.9144 meter."

Wikipedia page of US quarts

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.

Conversion

Conversion formula How to convert 12 US gallons to US quarts?

Conversion in the opposite direction

Approximation

Conversion formula
How to convert 12 US gallons to US quarts?