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Given information

Given :- Torricelli’s Law gives the volume V of water retaining in the tank after t minutes as

To find :-  At what time is the water flowing out the fastest? At what time is the water flowing out the slowest? Summarize your findings.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Note that the volume of water remaining in the tank after minutes as

.

Now, the rate at which the volume is decreasing

Observe that this is the rate at which water is draining from the tank.

Therefore,

 

Therefore, the rate of draining, .

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