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a solid cube of wood floats on water with half of its volume below the waters...

a solid cube of wood floats on water with half of its volume below the waters surface. the same peice is now floated in oil which has a specific gravity of 0.8. what fraction of the woods volume will be below thensirface of the oil? still half, more than half or less than half?
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