Use the density formula to solve the following problems.

1. What is the density in kg/m3 of CO gas if 0.196 g occupies a volume of 100 mL?
Answer: 1.96 kg/m3

2. A block of wood 3 cm on each side has a mass of 27 g. What is the density of

the block? Answer: 1.0 g/cm3

3. A 10.0 cm3 sample of copper has a mass of 89.6 g. What is the density of
copper? Answer: 8.96 g/cm3

4. Five mL of ethanol has a mass of 3.9 g, and 5.0 mL of benzene has a mass of 4.4
g. Which liquid is denser?
Answer : benzene

5. A sample of iron has dimensions of 2 cm x 3 cm x 2 cm. If the mass of this

rectangular-shaped object is 94 g, what is the density of iron? Answer: 7.83 g/cm3

6. You decide you want to carry a boulder home from the beach. It is 30
centimeters on each side, and so has a volume of 27,000 cm3. It is made of
granite, which has a typical density of 2.8 g/cm3. How much will this boulder
weigh? Answer: 740.88 N

7. Rocks are sometimes used along coasts to prevent erosion. If a rock needs to
weigh 2,000 kilograms (about 2 tons) in order not to be shifted by waves, how big
(what volume) does it need to be? You are using basalt, which has a typical
density of 3200 kg/m3. Answer: 0.625 m3

8. A golden-colored cube is handed to you. The person wants

you to buy it for $100, saying that is a gold nugget. You pull
out your old geology text and look up gold in the mineral table,
and read that its density is 19.3 g/cm3. You measure the cube
and find that it is 2 cm on each side, and weighs 40 g.
Should you buy it? Why or why not?

9. A solid ball has a mass of 100 grams and a radius of 2 cm. What is the density?

10. A solid cylinder has a radius of 2 cm and a length of 7 cm. It has a density of
3.1 g/cm3. What is the mass of the cylinder?

11. Seawater contains approximately 3.5% salt by weight. How much seawater (in
kg) contains 1 kg of salt? If the density of seawater is 1030 kg/m3, what is the
volume of seawater, in liters, containing 1 kg of salt?

12. The density of two liquids (A and B) is given as 1000 kg/m3 and 600 kg/m3,
respectively. The two liquids are mixed in a certain proportion and the density of
the resulting liquid is 850 kg/m3. How much of liquid B (in grams) does 1 kg of the
mixture contain? Assume the volume of the two liquids is additive when mixed.

13. A 200 mL graduated cylinder is filled halfway with methyl alcohol (density =
0.81 g/cm3), and then the other half is filled with oil (density = 0.72 g/cm3). What
is the mass (in grams) of the combined liquids?

14. To determine the inner radius of a uniform capillary tube, the tube is filled
with mercury. A column of mercury 3.0 cm long is found to have a mass of 0.50 g.
What is the inner radius of the tube in millimeters? The density of mercury is 13
600 kg/m3.

15. The volume of a 400 g of milk is 0.38 L. The butterfat that it contains
constitutes exactly 5% of the milk by weight and has a density of 0.90 g/cm3.
What is the density of the fat free milk in g/cm3?