Density worksheet
Density is an amount per unit of space: people per square mile, or grams per cubic centimeter. Divide the amount by the area or volume, or multiply back to find the amount.
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How to do these
A town of 12,000 people covers 8 square miles. Find its population density.
- Density is people divided by area.
- 12,000 divided by 8.
The answer is people per square mile.
Where students go wrong
Dividing the area by the population. Density puts the amount on top and the space on the bottom.
Also called population density, mass and density, density problems or modeling with density.
What you can put on this worksheet
- Population density
- A town of 67,620 people covers 23 square miles. Find its population density. → people per square mile
- Mass and density
- A lead bar is a box 4 cm by 2 cm by 12 cm. The density of lead is 11.3 g/cm. Find its mass. → g
- Density and floating
- A block 6 cm by 7 cm by 8 cm has a mass of 140 g. Find its density to the nearest hundredth, and say whether it floats in water (density 1 g per cubic cm). → g/cm; it floats