Name:___________________________________ Date:________________ P: ________
Density Calculations
1. What instrument do you use to measure mass? _______________________
2. What unit does that instrument use? ________________________________
3. Circle all the mass measurements in the list below:
25cm
13g
164mL
46g/cm3
1cm
256m
119g
143m
16g/cm3
16g
8g/cm3
2mL
16cm3
33g
5cm3
89m
25mL
5g
1346m
4. What instruments do you use to measure volume? ____________________________________
5. What unit do those instruments use? ______________________ and _____________________
6. Circle all the volume measurements in the list below:
16g
143m
16cm3
8g/cm3
33g
25mL
89m
5cm3
1346m
5g
25cm
164mL
13g
1cm
46g/cm3
256m
119g
2mL
16g/cm3
6. What is the density formula?
7. What unit will always be on the top or first of the formula? _____________________
8. What two units will always be on the bottom of the formula? ______________
(SHOW ALL WORK!!!!!! Remember to use the correct units for density)
9. A student finds a rock on the way to school. The rock has a volume of 22mL, and the mass in 39g.
What is the density of the rock?
10. If 89 mL of a liquid has a mass of 75 g, calculate the liquid’s density.
11. A shoebox has a volume of 538 cm3 and a mass of 114 g.
Use the water displacement method to help you find the volume of the object. Then use that volume to
help you calculate density.
15. Circle which of the following materials will float on water (density 1 g/ml or 1 g/cm3 )? Remember
to float is has to have a density less than the substance (in this case water).
air = 0.001 g/cm3
corn oil = 0.93 g/cm3
glycerine = 1.26 g/cm3
corn syrup = 1.38 g/cm3
wood = 0.85 g/cm3
steel = 7.81 g/cm3
rubber = 1.34 g/cm3
ice = 0.92 g/cm3
water = 1.00 g/cm3
16. List the above substances from Most to least density.