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(a) A rectangular gasoline tank can hold 50.0 kg of gasoline when full. What is the depth of the tank if it is 0.500-m wide by 0.900-m long? (b) Discuss whether this gas tank has a reasonable volume for a passenger car.
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VerifiedHere the mass of the gasoline
Now according to the table 11.1, the density of the rock is
The width of the gasoline tank
The length of the gasoline tank
Now as we know the volume of a rectangle tank having width , length , and height is
Now as we know the density is the mass per unit volume of a substance or object. In equation form, density is defined as
Where is the mass and is the volume of the substance or the object. Now to calculate the height or depth of the tank, we use the above equations (1) and (2) and we get
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