A body floats with of its volume outside water and of its volume outside another liquid.The density of the another liquid is:
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We will use Archimedes principle that a floating body displaces its weight.
If the body has volume V and weight W and the densities of the liquid and of water are ρ L and ρ W we can write
3 2 V ρ W = M
4 1 V ρ L = M
⟹ 3 2 ρ W = 4 1 ρ L
⟹ ρ W ρ L = 3 8
Taking the density of water to be 1 0 0 0 k g m − 3 gives the answer
ρ L = 3 8 × 1 0 3 k g m − 3