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The immersed portion of a piece of pure ice floating in water is:

  1. A
    of its volume.
  2. B
    of its volume.
  3. C
    of its volume
  4. D
    of its volume.

Solution & Step-by-step Explanation

According to the law of floatation, the fraction of the volume of a floating body that is submerged in a fluid () is equal to the ratio of the density of the floating body () to the density of the fluid ():


The density of pure ice is approximately and the density of pure water is .



Approximating this value to standard fractional choices yields (since or , which matches the closest standard textbook representation for general physics options).

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The immersed portion of a piece of pure ice floating in water is:
A
of its volume.
B
of its volume.
C
of its volume
D
of its volume.

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