Question

Salad oil floats on water. Water has a density of 1.0 g/cm3. What can you say about the density of the salad oil?

Answer 1

Density of the oil is lesser than that of the water

Step-by-step explanation:

The density of water is given as 1.0g/cm³.

Salad oil is found to float on water, this implies that the density of this salad oil is lesser than that of the water.

• When the density of a substance is greater than another, it will sink. If the density of the salad oil is greater than that of water, then it will sink and not float.
• Since the oil floats on water, the density of the oil is lesser than that of the water.

Density is the mass per unit volume of a substance.