What is the volume of a 612 g piece of aluminum? The density of aluminum is 2.70 g/cm3.

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What is the volume of a 612 g piece of aluminum?  The density of aluminum is 2.70 g/cm3.

mrnood · Answer

the clue is in the units

density is grams PER cm^3

This means that every 2.70 g has a volume of 1 cm^3

But the piece your question has 612g - so how many pieces of 2.70 grams (=1cm^3) could you get from that larger piece?

(if you don't know how to start then
how many pieces of 2.70 grams could you get from a larger piece weighing 5.40g?
how many pieces of 2.70 grams could you get from a larger piece weighing 8.10g?
how many pieces of 2.70 grams could you get from a larger piece weighing 10.8g?

How did you work that out?....)

anonymous · Answer

would it be 226?

mrnood · Answer

Just about - however - volume does not necessarily come in cm^3 sized pieces.

Maybe you should consider rounding the answer to a suitable number of decimal places?

anonymous · Answer

226.6 maybe?