• Two river bandits each have a mass of 70 kg place their stolen goods with a mass of 40 kg on a wooden raft and float down the river. The raft is made from solid wood with a density of 700 kg/m³. The raft has dimensions of 3 meters by 5 meters by 40 cm.
• a) Draw a FBD showing all of the forces acting on the wood raft. 
• b) Determine the weight of the bandits and their stolen goods.
• c) Determine the weight of the wood raft.
• d) Using your FBD and Newton's second law, determine the buoyant force acting on the wood raft.

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