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A man is sitting in a boat, which is floating in a pond. If the man drink some water from the pond, will the level of water in the pond decrease ?

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No. When he drinks water, say w kg, he displaces w kg of water and hence the level tends to increase But already the w kg has gone inside his stomach. So the level remains constant
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