What is the volume of a pencil, skate board, paper clip and water?

Question: What is the volume of a pencil, skate board, paper clip and water!?
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There is no way we can answer your question about any of them since we don't know the size of each!. The larger the object, the greater the volume!.

A large, fat, new pencil will have much more volume than a used, skinny stub of a pencil!.

I have some paper clips that are about three inches long!. These will have more volume than the ones in my cup full of standard, one inch clips!.

A barrel of water has more volume than a teaspoon of water!.

And so on!.

"Mad Mardigan" is confusing volume with density!. NOT the same thing!. It does not matter if the pencil floats!. A solid piece of iron, cast in the exact same size and shape of the pencil will have the exact same volume!. But the iron will not float!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you are trying to find the volume (size) of each of these items
you need a tank and a graduated cylinder and some water!.

You would measure the water by pouring it into your cylinder (measuring cup, etc) and simply add the quantities together!.

To find the volume of the other items:
Mark the level of water in a tub!.
Submerse the item in the water and mark the water level!.
Pour measured amounts of water into the tub until the water reaches the 2nd mark!.
The amount of water you added is the volume of the object!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your question is unclear, but if you filled a tub to the brim and knew its exact volume, you could immerse a skateboard, pencil or whatever and it would displace some water which would run over the side!. If you then refilled the tub, the exact amount of water that took would be the volume of the object you immersed!.
Volume is calculated axbxc where a is width, b is height and c is depth!. One Liter = 1000 cubic centimeters (c!.c!.s)Www@QuestionHome@Com

well the pencil is a hexagonal prism!. so the equasion is
V =1/2a(6)sh

your on your own!.!.!.

the others are pretty hard to find out!.!.

and water is impossible to find volume!.!.!.you didn't say how much!.!.!.a cup or the whole ocean!.!.

but the easiest was is to get a gradulated cylinder and measure the water difference without and with a pencil and the difference is the volume of an object!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

some pencils float!.!.!.!. you need more info for anyone can answer!. weight/mass of the the items!. volume is not some equation to apply to all!.!.!. depends on the items submerged or partially submergedWww@QuestionHome@Com

depends on the amount of water and how big your scales are =]Www@QuestionHome@Com

water doesn;t have volumeWww@QuestionHome@Com

Um it depends!. You need more information!. :)>-Www@QuestionHome@Com