Help! Math Problem!?
Gustav wants to find the exact mass of one millilitre of a particular oil. He wants as exact of an answer as he can get, so he will measure more than one millilitre and then divide to find the mass, to minimize measurement error. He forgot to measure the mass of the container alone, but he knows how to solve a system, so he doesn’t bother to do so. His measurements are as follows:
mass of the container and 50mL of the oil: 126.5g
mass of the same container and 100mL of the oil: 165.5g
(Identify the variables, write your equations, solve the system and write your answer.)
AHHH!! PLEASE HELP, SO CONFUSED!!
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Reading the text again, I see two unknowns identified:
“Gustav wants to find the exact mass of one millilitre of a particular oil”
“He forgot to measure the mass of the container”
So, you have two variables that Gustav thinks he’s going to need:
the mass of a millilitre of oil
the mass of the container.
Now, you’ll need two equations using those variables, one to match each of those last two lines, adding the mass of the container to the mass of the given amount of oil (which you get from the volume and the other variable), to get a total of the mass given at the end of the line.
That should get you your equations. From there, I expect you can solve the systems, perhaps with refernce to your textbook and class notes.
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