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Grade 12Mechanics

An ice berg of density 900kg/m3 is floating in water of density 1000kg/m3 . Percentage of ice outside the water

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7 Years agoGrade 12
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7 Years ago

Fraction

of an object remaining outside surface of the liquid while floating in it = 1 — density of the object/ density of the liquid ( solution)

= 1 —( 900/1000) = 0.1

%age of body = fraction x 100 = 0.1 x 100 = 10 %