Calculating Density

What is the formula for density?

You have a basketball with a volume of 30 cm³ and a mass of 60 g. What is the density?

What is the density of a piece of wood that has a mass of 25.0 g and a volume of 29.4 cm³?

A piece of wood that measures 3.0 cm by 6.0 cm by 4.0 cm has a mass of 80.0 grams. What is the density?

A block of aluminum occupies a volume of 15.0 mL and weighs 40.5 g. What is its density?

Mercury metal is poured into a graduated cylinder that holds exactly 22.5 mL. The mercury used to fill the cylinder weighs 306.0 g. From this information, calculate the density of mercury.

A rectangular block of copper metal weighs 1,896 g. The dimensions of the block are 8.4 cm by 5.5 cm by 4.6 cm. From this data, what is the density of the copper?

A block of lead has dimensions of 4.5 cm by 5.2 cm by 6 cm. The block weighs 1,587 g. From this information, calculate the density of lead.

Frank has an eraser. It has a mass of 4g, and a volume of 2cm³. What is its density?

• 8 g/cm³
• 2 g/cm³
• 1/2 g/cm³
• 24 g/cm³

Jack has a rock. The rock has a mass of 14g and a volume of 2cm³. What is the density of the rock?

• 7 mL
• 7 g/cm³
• 28 g/cm³
• 1/7 g/cm³