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Homework Statement If you wanted to displace 2 gallons of water, what would the volume of the object need to be? From there, what would the dimensions of an item need to be to match the required volume? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution

What will displace more water- an object with greater mass, or greater volume? For instance, if you have a glass of water and you drop an object in that is heavy (mass), but relatively small in size versus dropping an item that is much larger in size (volume), but not nearly as heavy, which...

I have an extension of this question,but posed a different way. What will displace more water- an object with greater mass, or greater volume? For instance, if you have a glass of water and you drop an object in that is heavy (mass), but relatively small in size versus dropping an item...