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A piece of ice is floating in water kept in a beaker. When all the ice melts the level of water will

  • A.First rise and then fall
  • B.Fall
  • C.Remain the same
  • D.Rise

Answer: C

The level will remain the same.

Floating ice displaces its own weight of water; on melting it becomes exactly that weight of water, which occupies exactly the volume it had been displacing. This is why melting sea ice does not raise sea level, whereas melting land ice does.

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