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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Based on Archimedes’ principle, we know that if an object displaces a given weight of water, then the object is being buoyed up by an equal amount of force.

OpenStudy (irishboy123):

yes a floating body displaces its own mass of the fluid in which it floats.... a submerged body displaces its own volume.

OpenStudy (irishboy123):

....and the submerged body is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it

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