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Category: Fluid Mechanics
Level: Grade 9
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Grade 9 Fluid Mechanics

You open a cooler to get a soda on a hot summer day and notice a can of diet soda is floating while the cans of regular soda are not floating. What can you infer about this situation? Which of the following is the best statement that describes this phenomenon?
  1. The water must be flowing upward in the area of the diet soda.
  2. There must be less matter in the regular can of soda.
  3. The diet soda must have less mass per unit of volume than the surrounding water.
  4. The diet soda can must be made of a different kind of material.