Reminder Round all the answers to two decimal places unless otherwise indicated.
Cox’s Formula Assume that a long horizontal pipe connects the bottom of a reservoir with a drainage area. Cox’s formula provides a way of determining the velocity
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a. Graph the quadratic function
b. Judging on the basis of Cox’s formula, is it possible to have a velocity of
c. Find the velocity of the water in the pipe if the pipe’s diameter is
d. If the water velocity is too high, there will be erosion problems. Assuming that the pipe length is
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