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Chapter 2, Problem 44E
A thief plans to steal a bar of gold from a woman’s purse and replace it with a bag of sand. Assume that the volumes of the gold and the sand are 350 mL each and that the density of sand is
a. Calculate the mass of each object.
b. Would the woman notice a difference in the weight of her purse?
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