Homework Help: physics

Posted by john on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:35pm.

a garbage barge on the hudson river, measures 25 x 5 x 1 meters & floats in the water. how much deeper does the barge float when 4200 kg of garbage is in it?

so far, all i know is the volume of the barge is 125 m^3.
now i just don't know what to do next. please help

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