Is a lbs of gold and a lbs of potatoes the same wieght?

Question

a lbs of gold = 12oz., a lbs of potatoes= 16oz.

Answer 1

you are all wrong. A pound of potatoes is 16 ounces. A pound of gold isn't the same weight as the pound of potatoes, but is a pound and weighs only 12 ounces. How? Gold is measured in Troy ounces. 1 Troy ounce= 1/12 Troy lb.



by the way, fluid ounces are a measure of volume. ounces are a measure of weight.

Answer 2

yup. they are the same. the difference when you measure them in ounces is that you are measuring them in another type of quantity. a pound is a measure of mass, whereas an ounce is a measure of volume. you can have the same mass between two materials but rarely the same volume and vice versa. the only way that two materials can have the same mass and volume is if they have the same density. (density = mass/ volume).



in your problem, gold and potatoes are each one pound. but since gold is denser than a potato (in laymans terms, it's molecules are more tightly packed together than the potato's molecules). the gold only measures 12 ounces in volume in comparison to the 16 ounces the potato occupies.



Hope i answered your question right.

Answer 3

Same weight as a lb of cotton.



I think there is an error, a lb of gold cannot be 12 oz, otherwise you got cheated.

Answer 4

it's a trick question ~ a lb is a lb for example a pound of feathers and a lb of rocks are going to have very different quantities of materials but they will weigh the same.

Answer 5

No. Gold is measured in Troy weight. 1 pound [troy] = 0.822 857 143 pound.

Answer 6

You answered your own question. Weight is weight. 12 oz does not equal 16 oz. So each is a different measure of a pound

Answer 7

Since when did a pound (16 ozs) become 12?

Must have missed something.

Answer 8

No, gold is weighed differntly from everything else.

Answer 9

They both have to be a pound.