Name ______ _______________________________________ Date ________________ Period ______
Chemistry Worksheet
Density = mass/volume
Coke Can Density Demo:
Measurement
Regular Coke
Diet Coke
Mass
Volume
Density Calculation
What is the density of water? ____________________
Why does a regular can of Coke sink in water while a can of Diet Coke floats?
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Please answer the following questions:
1. A sample of aluminum metal has a mass of 8.4 g. The volume of the sample is 3.1 cm 3.
Calculate the density of aluminum.
2. What is the density of a block of marble that occupies 310 cm3 and has a mass of 853 g?
3. Diamond has a density of 3.26 g/cm3. What is the mass of a diamond that has a volume of
0.350 cm3?
4. What is the volume of a sample of liquid mercury that has a mass of 76.2 g, given that the
density of mercury is 13.6 g/mL?
5. What is the density of an 84.7 g sample of an unknown substance if the sample occupies 49.6
cm3?
6. What volume would be occupied by 7.75 g of the substance in question 5?
7. What is the volume of a sample of helium that has a mass of 1.73 × 10-3 g, given that the
density is 0.178 47 g/L?
8. What is the density of a piece of metal that has a mass of 6.25 × 105 g and is 92.5 cm × 47.3
cm × 85.4 cm?
9. A student measures the mass of a beaker filled with corn oil. The mass reading averages
215.6 g. The mass of the beaker is 110.4 g.
a. What is the mass of the corn oil?
b. What is the density of the corn oil if its volume is 114 cm3?
10. Calculate the mass of a sample of gold that occupies 5.0 × 10-3 cm3. The density of gold is
19.3 g/cm3.