The following method does not use a system of two or three
equations but rather a work/mixture approach:
Since the
volume of gold is twice the volume of the silver, we can use the ratio of 2G/1S to
calculate the overall density.
The
d of G is 19.3g/cc and the d
of S is 10.5g/cc. So now I take 2G=2*19.3=38.6 and then add 10.5 to get a total of
49.1g/cc.
But this is 3 times the total density, because
we added the densities of two golds and one silver. So, dividing 49.1 by 3, we get
16.36666... or, rounding to two decimal places, 16.37
g/cc.
Make sure not to confuse mass and
weight. Weight takes into account the force of gravity; mass does
not.
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