You are in charge of the evacuation and repair of the storage tank shown here. The tank is a hemisphere of radius 10 ft and is full of benzene weighing 56 lb/ft3. A firm you contacted says it can empty the tank for 1/2¢ per foot-pound of work. Find the work required to empty the tank by pumping the benzene to an outlet 2 ft above the top of the tank. If you have $5000 budgeted for the job, can you afford to hire the firm?

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You are in charge of the evacuation and repair of the storage tank
shown here. The tank is a hemisphere of radius 10 ft and is full
of benzene weighing 56 lb/ft3. A firm you contacted says it can
empty the tank for 1/2¢ per foot-pound of work. Find the work
required to empty the tank by pumping the benzene to an outlet
2 ft above the top of the tank. If you have $5000 budgeted for the
job, can you afford to hire the firm?

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