Multiple Choice
The bathyscaphe Trieste consists of a cylindrical hull, 15.2 m long and 3.66 m in diameter, filled with gasoline with a density of 880 kg/m3 to make it buoyant. If it is totally submerged in salt water with a density of 1025 kg/m3 and neither rising nor sinking, what is the weight of the craft?
A) 127 kN
B) 227 kN
C) 327 kN
D) 427 kN
E) 527 kN
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