A little aluminum boat (mass of 14.50
g. has a volume of 450.00 cm3. The boat is placed in a small pool of water and carefully filled with pennies. If each penny has a mass of 2.50 g, how many pennies can be added to the boat before it sinks?

Respuesta :

when the volume is 450 cm3 so the boat will displace 450 g.

so we have  450 g - 14.5g = 435.5 left 

so to get how many pennies can be added to the boat before it sinks can be determined by:

divided the mass for the one penny:

no.of Penny = 435.5 / 2.5g

                     = 174.2 

∴ the boat will float with 174 pennies and will start to sink with 175