When an object is partly or wholly immersed in a liquid, it is buoyed up

A) by a force equal to its own weight.
B) by a force equal to the weight of liquid displaced.
C) and floats because of Archimedes' principle.
D) but sinks.
E) none of the above


Answer: B

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