Question

Question #1d470

Answer 1

`"5.2 mL"`

Explanation:

All you have to do here is use the density of the substance as a conversion factor to go from grams to milliliters.

In essence, this is what the density of a substance is useful for. As you know, density is defined as the mass of exactly one unit of volume of a substance.

In your case, the density is expressed in grams per milliliter, which means that one unit of volume will be `"1 mL"`. So, you know that `"1 mL"` of your substance has a mass of `"3.291 g"`.

This is what `"3.291 g/mL"` means -- you get `"3.291 g"` for every `"1 mL"` of this substance

You can thus say that `"17 g"` will occupy a volume of

`17 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))) * overbrace("1 mL"/(3.291 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g")))))^(color(blue)("density as a conversion factor")) = color(green)(|bar(ul(color(white)(a/a)color(black)("5.2 mL")color(white)(a/a)|)))`

The answer is rounded to two sig figs.