A Venturi meter with a throat of 15 cm is used to measure the flow rate of water along a horizontal pipe that has an internal diameter of 17 cm. The flowmeter is calibrated using a solution of salt with a concentration of 10 gl–1 fed upstream of the meter at a rate of 50millilitres per second. If the pressure difference between the upstream position and the throat is found to be 759 Nm–2 A when a sample of salt-bearing water was analysed downstream from the flowmeter and found to be 15 mgl–1 , determine the flow rate of waterthrough the pipeline and the coefficient of discharge of the flowmeter.

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A Venturi meter with a throat of 15 cm is used to measure the flow rate of water along a horizontal pipe that has an internal diameter of 17 cm. The flowmeter is calibrated using a solution of salt with a concentration of 10 gl–1 fed upstream of the meter at a rate of 50millilitres per second. If the pressure difference between the upstream position and the throat is found to be 759 Nm–2 A when a sample of salt-bearing water was analysed downstream from the flowmeter and found to be 15 mgl–1 , determine the flow rate of waterthrough the pipeline and the coefficient of discharge of the flowmeter.

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