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Originally posted by KnifeMissle
Damn it! I didn't think of that. Knowing this, I think the actual answer is b.
What's going on is that, yes, ice is less dense than water and, thus, it floats. If it floats, how much of it is floating above the water? Well, just enough so that the "virtual density," that is the mass of the ice divided by the volume of ice that's still submerged in water, is the same as water! You can figure the rest out...
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I was just coming back to this thread to say essentially the same thing. I vote (b).