Under normal conditions, you are just barely able to lift a mass of 76 kg. Your friend drops a box of volume 6.2 m3 into a lake. If you are just able to lift it to the surface (so that it is still completely submerged), what is the mass of the box?

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Under normal conditions, you are just barely able to lift a mass of 76 kg. Your friend drops a box of volume 6.2 m3 into a lake. If you are just able to lift it to the surface (so that it is still completely submerged), what is the mass of the box?

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