Two equal-sized buckets are brim-filled with water, one with a piece of floating wood and the other without. If the buckets are put on a weighing scale, the heavier one is

A) the bucket with the floating wood.
B) the bucket without the wood in it.
C) either, for the weights of both are the same.


Answer: C

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