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1. Which of the two objects has the greater mass? Explain your response.
The density of lead in a fishing sinker is 11.3 g/cm3. What does this tell us about lead?
What is the mass of 2 cm3 of lead?
What is the volume of 113 g of lead?
Metal Cube A has a density that is 20% smaller than metal Cube B. How much smaller is Cube
A’s mass than Cube B’s density?
6. A deliveryman pumps propane into a storage tank, more and more gas is confined into the same
space. What happens to propane’s density in this case?
7. Consider the following diagrams of beakers each containing water. Which is more dense? Defend
your response.
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8. Consider the following diagrams depicting beakers of water. How does their density compare?
Defend your response.
9. A block of aluminum has a volume of 15.0 mL and a mass of 40.50 g. What is its density?
SPS2. Students will explore the nature of matter, its classifications, and its system for naming types of matter.
a. Calculate density when given a means to determine a substance’s mass and volume.
 You exceeded the standard.
 You met the standard.
 You did not meet the standard.
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10. A graduated cylinder holds exactly 22.5 mL of the metal mercury. The mass of the mercury
sample is 306.0 g. Calculate the density of mercury.
11. What is the mass of ethyl alcohol that exactly fills a 200.0 mL container? The density of ethyl
alcohol is 0.789 g/mL.
12. A rectangular block of copper metal has a mass of 1896.00 g. The dimensions of the block are 8.4
cm x 5.5 cm x 4.6 cm. What is the density of the copper block?
13. A flask with a mass of 345.80 g fills with 225 mL of carbon tetrachloride. The mass of the flask
and the sample is determined to be 703.55 g. What is the density of the CCl4?
14. A 35.4 mL sample of sulfuric acid has a mass of 65.14 g. Determine its density.
15. Find the mass of 250.00 mL of benzene if its density is 0.8765 g/mL.
16. A block of lead is 4.50 cm x 5.20 cm x 6.00 cm in dimensions. The block has a mass of 1,587 g.
Determine the density of this lead block.
17. A graduated cylinder containing 45.50 mL of water has 28.5 g sample of iron shot added. The
water level rises to the 49.10 mL mark. Calculate the density of the iron metal.
18. What volume of silver will have a mass of 2,500.00 g if silver’s density is 10.5 g/cm3?
Use the data from the table at the right in answering the next question
set.
19. What is the volume of a 2,500-g sample of iron held at 20 oC?
20. A student has determined that a sample of gold held at 20 oC has a
density of 18.95 g/cm3. Evaluate her accuracy by calculating her
percent error.
21. If you were given 1-cm3 samples of each substance listed in the
table, which would have the greatest mass? Least mass? Defend
your responses.
22. Identify a solid from the list that floats in water.
23. Identify a solid that would float in dry cleaning fluid yet sink in
water.
24. Describe the buoyancy of iron in mercury.
25. How many times heavier is 1 cm3 sample of silver than a same size
sample of water?
26. You have 50-mL samples of ethyl alcohol, corn oil, and dry
cleaning fluid. Which sample has the greatest mass? Support your
response.
27. Imagine you have a 100-g ingot of gold and a 100-g ingot of silver.
Which is larger? By how many times is it larger?
28. You have 50-g samples of copper, air, and hydrogen. Which has
the greatest volume? Support your response.
29. An irregularly shaped 63.0-g sample of an unknown metal is placed into a graduated cylinder
containing exactly 25.0 mL of water. The volume rises to 31.0 mL. What is the density of the
unknown metal? Using the data table, identify the unknown metal.
SPS2. Students will explore the nature of matter, its classifications, and its system for naming types of matter.
a. Calculate density when given a means to determine a substance’s mass and volume.
 You exceeded the standard.
 You met the standard.
 You did not meet the standard.