document.write( "Question 1134668: Determine weight of a block of marble, which contains 130.71 ft.^3 and specific gravity of 2.742.\r
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document.write( "Your problem, as it is formulated and presented, has an \"underwater stone\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "The volume is given in cubic feet, while the specific gravity goes with no measuring unit, at all.\r\n" );
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document.write( "But I know \"the numbers\", and I know that 2.742 is the marble's specific gravity measured in g/cm^3 or tons/m^3.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Actually,  Weight = specific gravity * Volume,\r\n" );
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document.write( "but this formula assumes that all the values go with coherent (=consistent) units.\r\n" );
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document.write( "At this point I will stop my tales.\r\n" );
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