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A ship saslling from sea into a river sinks X mm and on discharging the corgo rises Y mm. on proceeding again into sea the ship rises the Zmm. Find te specific gravity of sea-water assuming the faces of ship are vertically along the line of sea water.

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`(Y)/(Y-X+Z)`
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