Question

A teacher performing a demonstration finds that a piece of cork displaces 24 mL of water. The piece of cork has a mass of 6 g. What is the density of the cork?

Answer 1

0.25 g/cm³

Step-by-step explanation:

Density is the ratio of mass to volume:

(6 g)/(24 mL) = 0.25 g/mL = 0.25 g/cm³

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1 mL = 1 cm³. Units of density in the cgs unit system are g/cm³.