Question

D. A bargain hunter purchases a "gold" crown at a flea market. After she gets home, she hangs it from a scale and finds its weight to be 7.84 N. She then weighs the crown while it is immersed in water, and now the scale reads 6.86 N. Is the crown made of pure gold? Find the density of the crown and compare it to the it to density of the gold. ​

Answer 1

Wc = 7.84 weight of crown

Ww = 7.84 - 6.86 = .98 weight of water displaced

Density = 7.84 / .98 = 8 crown is 8 X that of water

Since gold has a density of 19.3 that of water the crown is certainly not 100 percent (if any) gold