Homework Help: Physics

Posted by James on Monday, July 2, 2012 at 10:20pm.

A wooden block floating in seawater has two thirds of its volume submerged. When the block is placed in mineral oil, 10% of its volume is submerged.
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a) Find the density of the wooden block. (The density of seawater is 1.024 g/cm3.)
(b) Find the density of the mineral oil.

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