Post #201 by unquarked on the Retirement Investing board

If someone appears to be repeatedly personal, lean towards patience as they might not mean offense. If you are sure, however, then do not deepen the problem by being negative; instead, simply place them on ignore by clicking the unhappy yellow face to the right of their name.

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As is readily apparent, any fifth grader with a PhD could have simply looked it up and gotten an answer.

The intuitive answer that comes to me is that when the mass to volume ratio of the object is less than that of water it floats, thus reducing the volume of water displaced. When that ratio is greater than that of water, it sinks, displacing its entire volume.

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