have a chemistry question, it asks: "In the lab, you measure the density of a metal to be 4.16 g/cm3. The handbook value for the density of this metal is 4.018 g/mL. What is the percent error? Pay close attention to the significant figures in your answer, as you should in the lab." My question is: What do we do? Are we trying to find the volume and mass from the given density of 4.018? How do we do that?

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I have a chemistry question, it asks: "In the lab, you measure the density of a metal to be 4.16 g/cm3. The handbook value for the density of this metal is 4.018 g/mL. What is the percent error? Pay close attention to the significant figures in your answer, as you should in the lab."

My question is: What do we do? Are we trying to find the volume and mass from the given density of 4.018? How do we do that? 

 

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