The figure shows an object of mass 0.4 kg that is suspended from a scale and submerged in a liquid. If the reading on the scale is 3 N, then the buoyant force that the fluid exerts on the object is most nearly

(A) 1.3 N
(B) 1.0N
(C) 0.75 N
(D) 0.33 N
(E) 0.25 N