While he hikes in the Gold Country of northern California, Sid dreams about the adventurers that walked the same trails years ag
o. He suddenly kicks a small bright yellowish nugget. Could it be gold? Sid quickly makes a balance scale using his walking stick and finds that the nugget has the same mass as the uneaten half of his 330 g nutrition bar. He then drops the stone into his water bottle, which has a 2.5 cm radius, and notes that the water level goes up 0.9 cm. Has Sid struck gold? Explain your reasoning. (Refer to the density chart in
First find the radius by taking half the diameter. Use the radius to find the base area by using the formula for the area of a circle. Find the product of the base area and height, and then take one-third of the product.
