Question

When a container of water is placed on a laboratory scale, the scale reads 120 g. Now a 20-g piece of copper (of density 8.9 g/cm3) is suspended from a thread and lowered into the water, not touching the bottom of the container. What will the scale now read? The density of water is 1.0
g/cm3.
10
A) 138 g B) 120 g C) 140 g D) 122 g

Answer 1

122g