Question

A Perspex container has a 6 cm square base and contains water to a height of 7 cm.
(a) What is the volume of the water?
(b) A stone is lowered into the water so as to be completely covered and the water rises to a height of 9 cm.What is the volume of the stone?

Answer 1

Answer:

the water in the container is 6×6×7 = 252 cm cube

Answer 2

Answer:72cm^3

Explanation

9-7=2

2x6x6=72