AN irregularly shaped piece of metal has a mass of 89.3g and displaces 36.7cm^3 of water when immersed. Also has a density of 2.433g/cm^3
What would be the volume (cm^3) of 5.37kg of this metal?

Question

AN irregularly shaped piece of metal has a mass of 89.3g and displaces 36.7cm^3 of water when immersed. Also has a density of 2.433g/cm^3
What would be the volume (cm^3) of 5.37kg of this metal?

perl · Answer

so this metal has density
rearranging the density formula  density = mass / volume 
gives us : 
volume = mass / density
volume = ( 5.37 * 10^3 g )/ (2.433 g / cm^3) 
            = 2207.15 cm^3

anonymous · Answer

I feel so dumb right now! aha thank you! @perl