Question

A miner finds a small mineral fragment with a volume of 5.74 cm3 and a mass of 14.4 g. What is the density of that mineral fragment?

(Points : 5)
2.00 g/cm3

2.51 g/cm3

5.00 g/cm3

10.0 g/cm3

Answer 1

The equation for density is mass over volume, because density is basically a measurement of the amount of mass in a certain volume (the amount of element-stuff squished into a certain three-dimensional space). So, to find the density:


`density=(mass)/(volume)\\density=(14.4\ g)/(5.74\ cm^3)\\density=2.5087\ g/cm^3`

So, the answer is B) 2.51 g/cm3,