What is the volume of a 898 kilogram piece of iron metal (density is 7.75 g mL-1)? How long would a piece of iron have to be if the base is 1.50 cm2?
A packing material has a density of 12.8 kg m-3. How many grams of the material are needed to fill a volume of 3.00 ft3 ?
Which of the following items would be the heaviest?
a) a 100 pound bag of dog food;
b) a 15 gallon plastic container of water (assume the container's mass is negligible);
c) a 3.0 L container of mercury (density = 13.6 g mL-1).
Mercury is shipped in containers holding 76 pounds of mercury. Whould such a container fit into a wooden box which has inside dimensions of 8.0 inches by 4.0 inches by 4.0 inches?