Question

If you have 10cm of snow with a volume of 40mL and a density of 0.5 g/mL how many inches of rain is this?

Answer 1

Density is the mass of compound divided by its volume can be shown as follows:

$d = 0.5 g /mL = m /V = m /40 = 0.5$

$m = 20 g$

40 mL of snow having 20 g of mass calculated from density.

Now, 10 cm of snow = 3.93 inches = 20 g  

As, 10 inches of rain will produce 11 inches of ice as the volume of ice is bigger than rain water.

10 inches rain = 11 inches snow

3.93 inches of snow produced by  

$= (3.93 * 10) /11 = 3.57 inches rain.$

Thus, 3.57 incehs of rain produces by 10 cm snow.