How many cubic inches are in a cup?

Answer 1

== == == == One U.S. legal cup (240ml) is equal to 14.6456 cubic inches.

One U.S. customary cup (237ml) is equal to 14.4620 cubic inches. In the United States, the definition of a "customary cup" is 0.5 customary pints, which comes out to 236.588ml, commonly rounded up to 237ml. The definition of a "legal cup," or the volume that defined by U.S. law for the purposes of nutrition labeling on food packaging is 240ml.

The calculations for those who might be interested were derived as follows:

For reference:

1 milliliter (ml) = 1 cubic centimeter (cm^3) 1in = 2.54cm, so 1/2.54 gives us

1cm = 0.3937in One 240ml cup occupies any theoretical space measuring 240cm^3. For the purpose of presenting a practical example, I will use a theoretical space measuring 10cm x 8cm x 3cm. If we convert those centimeter measurements to inches:

10 x 0.3937 = 3.937in 8 x 0.3937 = 3.1496in 3 x 0.3937 = 1.1811in And then calculate the cubic inch (in^3) volume:

3.937in x 3.1496in x 1.1811in = 14.6456in^3