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A block of wood floats in a liquid of density 0.8 `g cm^-3` with one fourth of its volume submerged. For the density of wood

A

`3.2cm^3`

B

`200 kgm^-3`

C

`0.2 kgm^-3`

D

`1.6 gcm^-3`

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