Question

To float in water, an object must have a density of less than 1 gram per milliliter. The density of a fresh egg is about 1.2 grams per milliliter. If the density of a spoiled egg is about 0.3 grams per milliliter less than that of a fresh egg, what is the density of a spoiled egg? How can you use water to tell if an egg is spoiled?

Answer 1

Density of fresh egg = 1.2 g/cm³.

Density of spoiled egg = Density of fresh egg - 0.3 g/cm³.

Density of spoiled egg =( 1.2 - 0.3 ) g/cm³ = 0.9 g/cm³.

Now, it is given that any object with density less than 1 g/cm³ will float on water.

To tell whether an egg is spoiled or not using water. We should drop egg in water if it float then it is spoiled else it is fresh.

Hence, this is the required solution.