At a boring formal evening banquet, you get served a watery soup with disgusting little meatballs floating at the top.

To your delight, there is also a bottle of olive oil on the table, and you empty its contents into your soup bowl. What will the meatballs do now (compared to before you added the olive oil)?

Question

At a boring formal evening banquet, you get served a watery soup with disgusting little meatballs floating at the top. 

To your delight, there is also a bottle of olive oil on the table, and you empty its contents into your soup bowl. What will the meatballs do now (compared to before you added the olive oil)?

anonymous · Answer

dont get it... if meatballs have density between water and oil they will be in the middle, if they have lesser density than oil they will float on oil which floats on water...

anonymous · Answer

so then they will rise?

anonymous · Answer

i dont know what density meatballs have...

anonymous · Answer

me neither :( All i know is that they are less dense than water

anonymous · Answer

I tried saying that they would stay at the same height in the water, but that was wrong