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Density is used to determine if the material or substance is good forthe job it is built for.For example, if you want to build a boat out of wood, wouldn't you want to know if the wood floats onwater?1a) A boat builder likes to make special boats out of reclaimed wood from treeshe finds at the bottom of lakes. He found a particular tree but he did notknow what type of wood it was and if it would be a good density for his boatbuilding. So he cut a piece of out of the tree that had the dimensions of1.0 mx 0.5 mx 0.25 m and a mass of 159.4 kg. Would this wood be good to usefor his boat? The density of water is 1000 kg/m.

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