Density Calculation Questions
Density Calculation Questions
Practice Problems
1. A metal ball has a mass of 2kg and a volume of 6 m3. What is its density?
2. Water has a density of 1 g/ml. What is the mass of the water if it fills a 10 ml container?
3. A certain gas expands to fill a 3 L container. Its mass is measured to be 0.5 kg. What is its density?
4. A solid is 2 cm tall, 2 cm wide and 2 cm thick. It has a mass of 24g. What is its density?
5. The mass of the block below is 80 grams. What is its density?
6. A measuring cylinder is filled to an initial volume of 14 ml. A rock is dropped into the graduated cylinder.
The final volume of the graduated cylinder is 18 ml. What is the rock’s volume in both ml and cm 3?
What method was used to determine this?
Questions
1. What is mass? What instrument is used to measure mass? What are the basic units of mass?
2. What is volume? What instrument is used to measure liquid volume? What formula is used to
calculate the volume of a solid object?
4. A perfect cube has a width of 3 cm. What is the cube’s volume? Show your working.
5. A box 5 cm long, 4 cm wide and 6 cm high would have what volume? Show your working.