A vessel contains oil (density `=0.8gm//cm^3`) over mercury (density `=13.6gm cm^3`).
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Date: 2020-07-05

A vessel contains oil (density `=0.8gm//cm^3`) over mercury (density `=13.6gm cm^3`). A homogeneous sphere floats with half its volume immersed in mercury and the other half in oil. The density of the material of the sphere in `gm//cm^3` is