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Arii_bell

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Two life preservers have identical volumes, one filled with Styrofoam and the other filled with sand. When each is worn by swimmers, one swimmer floats and the other sinks. Interestingly, the buoyant force is actually greater on the life preserver that
 
  A) sinks.
  B) floats.
  C) same either way
  D) none of the above

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Two life preservers have identical volumes, one filled with Styrofoam and the other filled with sand. When both are fully submerged, the buoyant force is greater on the one filled with
 
  A) Styrofoam.
  B) sand.
  C) same on each if volumes remain the same.


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Jsherida

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Reply #1 on: Jul 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C


Arii_bell

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Reply 2 on: Jul 29, 2018
:D TYSM

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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