The student then emptied the flask and dried it once again. To the empty flask she added pieces of a metal until the flask was about half full. She weighed the stoppered flask and its metal contents and found the mass was 99.323 g. She then filled the flask with water, stoppered it, and obtained a total mass of 120.827 g for the flask, metal, stopper, and water. Find the density of the metal.

To find the density of the metal we need to know its mass and volume. We can easily obtain its mass by the method of difference

mass of metal= ________g - _____________g = ___________g

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The student then emptied the flask and dried it once again. To the empty flask she added pieces of a metal until the flask was about half full. She weighed the stoppered flask and its metal contents and found the mass was 99.323 g. She then filled the flask with water, stoppered it, and obtained a total mass of 120.827 g for the flask, metal, stopper, and water. Find the density of the metal. 

To find the density of the metal we need to know its mass and volume. We can easily obtain its mass by the method of difference

mass of metal= ________g - _____________g = ___________g

anonymous · Answer

does this mean we take the 99.323 subtract the 120.827 and get the total mass of the metal?