Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> You are sitting in a canoe, in a swimming pool, holding a cannon ball in 
> your lap. You throw the cannonball overboard, and it sinks to the 
> bottom. Does the level of water in the pool go up, go down, or stay the 
> same?

  A classic.

  The answer can be deduced by thinking about volume and weight.

  In the canoe the ball displaces an amount of water proportional to
the weight of the ball. In the water it displaces an amount proportional
to the volume of the ball.

  So the question is basically reduced to: Which is denser, the cannonball
or water?

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