Chemistry for Engineering Students
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1.84 A student was given two metal cubes that looked similar. One was 1.05 cm on an edge and had a mass of 14.32 grams; the other was 2.66 cm on a side and had a mass of 215.3 grams. How can the student determine if these two cubes of metal are the same material using only the data given?
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If a sample of gold alloy has a mass of 87.7 g and is 78.3% gold by mass, what percentage of the alloy is made up of other metals? Write your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.
(I had to alter the wording of this question since it wasn't calculating significant figures properly, so if you got it wrong because of significant figures you can assume you probably actually got it correct.)
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Chemistry for Engineering Students
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