Two Life Preservers Have Identical Volumes, but One Is Filled

question 70

Multiple Choice

Two life preservers have identical volumes, but one is filled with Styrofoam while the other is filled with sand. When the two life preservers are fully submerged, the buoyant force is greater on the one filled with

• A)Styrofoam.
• B)sand.
• C)same on each as long as their volumes are the same

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Definitions:

Surface Area

The total area that the surface of an object occupies, influencing various physical and chemical properties like absorption and evaporation rates.

Birth Rates

The number of live births per thousand of the population in a given year.

Wasting

Rapid loss of body weight and muscle mass, often due to disease, malnutrition, or extreme physical stress.

Water

A transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain, and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.