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Volume of the spirit displaced = (3 × 3 × 4) = 36 cm3 = 3.6 × 10-5 m3
Weight of the block =vd × p × g = (3.6 × 10-5) × 8.0 × 102 × 10 = 2.88 × 10-1N.
Mutiso answered the question on October 16, 2018 at 06:52
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