Question

A student finds a rock on the way to school. In the laboratory he determines that the volume of the rock by placing the rock in a graduated cylinder with 50 mL of water and watched the water rise to 72.7 mL. The student determined the mass is 39.943 g through the use of a triple beam balance. What is the density of the rock?

Answer 1

Answer:

1.76 g/mL

Explanation:

You need to find the volume.  You can do this by subtracting the volume of the water and the rock by the volume of the water.

72.7 mL  -  50 mL  =  22.7 mL

Now that you have volume, divide the mass by the volume to find the density.

39.943 g/22.7 mL = 1.76 g/mL