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You take a graduated cylinder,or anything you can measure water in, and put water in it. You drop the marble in and the change in water height is your volume. For example if the cylinder is filled up to 10ml and after you drop in the marble it goes to 15ml then the marble has a volume of 5ml cubed.
For finding volume you can use water displacement. Get a amount of water (make sure you know what number and how much) and drop your item in the water. The water should have risen. The difference of the Displaced water and the starting water should get you your volume.e.g. 16 mL of water, you drop a marble, the water is now 18 mL. So the volume of the marble is 2 mL.
All of the above? You can say the same thing in many ways. All of the following are different ways of saying the same thing, and all are correct: The marble sinks because the marble weighs more that an equivalent volume of water. The marble sinks because its density is greater than the density of water. The marble sinks because it has a greater mass than than same volume of water (and there is gravity/acceleration).
No, a drop of water isn't even the same as another drop of water. They come in different sizes and aren't adequate for precision uses. For an amazing drop search "Pitch drop experiment".