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Transcribed Image Text:A piece of lead has the shape of a hockey puck, with a diameter of 7.5 cm and a
height of 2.5 cm. If the puck is placed in a mercury bath, it floats. How deep
below the surface of the mercury is the bottom of the lead puck?
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