Question: A plastic boat with a 25 cm2 square cross section floats in a liquid. One by one, you place 50 g masses inside the boat

A plastic “boat” with a 25 cm2 square cross section floats in a liquid. One by one, you place 50 g masses inside the boat and measure how far the boat extends below the surface. Your data are as follows: 

                                                        A plastic “boat” with a 25 cm2 square cross section floats inDraw an appropriate graph of the data and, from the slope and intercept of the best-fit line, determine the mass of the boat and the density of the liquid. 

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