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Given information

Given that a tank is 8 m long, 4 m wide, 2 m high, and contains kerosene with density  to a depth of 1.5 m.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The area of the bottom surface of the tank is given by:

 

 

The hydrostatic pressure of a liquid of density    at a depth   from the surface of the liquid is , where  is the gravity constant.

Put the values of   in the formula for  :

  

 

 

 

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