A block of wood floats in water with 
of its volume submerged. If the same block just floats in a liquid, the density of the liquid (in kg 
) is
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D
According to Archimedes’s principle
Weight of the body = Weight of the liquid displaced
Let V be volume of block.
In water, 
……. (i)
In liquid 
……… (ii)
From (i) and (ii), we get
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