You would need to measure the volume directly by making measurements using some kind of laboratory apparatus. You would use a graduated cylinder if it's a liquid. If it's a regular solid like a cube or rectangle, you could measure it's length, width, and height and calculate volume with a ruler or meter stick. If it's an irregular solid, you can find it's volume using an overflow by water displacement.
However, if you do not have the substance available to actually measure, it will be impossible to determine the volume using the density formula. You must have two of the variables in order to calculate the missing one.
Density = Mass / Volume Rearranging this gives: Volume = Mass / Density Mass = Density × Volume
mass = density ( )/cm3 multiplied by volume( )cm3
density = mass/volume mass = density x volume
You have to know two out of three ... mass, volume, density ... then you can find the missing one. If density is missing . . . Density = (mass)/(volume) If mass is missing . . . Mass = (density) x (volume) If volume is missing . . . Volume = (mass)/(density)
Find its volume. Divide the mass by the volume to get the density.
density is mass divided by /volume so mass is density times volume
Density = (mass) divided by (volume)Mass = (Density) times (volume)
Density = mass/volumeMass = (density) x (volume)Volume = mass/density
Density = Mass/Volume
mass divided by volume... mass/volume=density
Multiply them: density*volume = mass
Volume = mass / density