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Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology (MindTap Course List)
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An inexperienced design engineer poorly designed an underground gasoline storage tank, open to the atmosphere, that water seeped into a depth of 5 ft as shown in the figure below. Determine the gauge pressure at the interface between the gasoline and water as well as the gauge pressure at the bottom of the tank. If the local atmospheric pressure is 0.90 atm, what is the absolute pressure at these two locations? The specific gravity of gasoline is 0.70. Express your answers in psi.

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