A plastic block of mass and volume floats on the surface of water

PHYSICS · Subjective · GCSE · Physics · Forces · Forces

Problem

A plastic block of mass

3\,\text{kg}

and volume

0.005\,\text{m}^{3}

floats on the surface of water. Calculate the volume of the block that is actually submerged in the water. (Take the density of water as

1000\,\text{kg\,m}^{-3}