My work: My answer for 1 is 2.5m (floats) For 2:
- MG must be positive and Ym - Yg must be positive
- I am not sure where to go from here.
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2why would the pontoon be 5 m high? – jsotola Feb 17 '23 at 23:54
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The question is badly written. Yes, it needs 2.5 m of water to maintain the flotation, yc will be the distance from the top of the platoon to the centroid of the weight, a trick question it maybe. – r13 Feb 18 '23 at 00:44
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I would have thought it was 2 m high, and 3 m wide and a length of 5 m. – Forward Ed Feb 18 '23 at 04:11
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Check out [this question](https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/51717/ship-stability-and-overturning-moment). – Tomáš Létal Feb 18 '23 at 07:06