A wooden cube of side 10 cm floats in water with 3 cm above the surface of water. What is (i) mass of the cube (ii) density?


Given,
side of cube=10 cm
Volume of cube=10×10×10=1000 cm3
Now,
length of side of cube above water=3 cm
length of side of cube immersed in water=10-3=7 cm
Volume of water displaced by the submerged part=10×10×7=700 cm3
mass of the water displaced=density of water × volume of water displaced=1×700=700 cm3
As the cube is floating,
weight of cube=weight of water displaced=700 gf
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