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Homework Statement Sprinkler in a hotel is supplied by gravity from a cylindrical tank on the roof. Suppose the tank has a radius of 25' and the diameter of the outlet is 4". The system must provide 2270 psf for at least 5 minutes. What height should the engineer specify for the tank to...

I guess what I'm asking is do I need to treat this as a system of equations? Do I need to divide, and if so is it x/y or y/x?

Homework Statement Consider a wet banked roadway, where there is a coefficient of static friction of 0.300 and a coefficient of kinetic friction of 0.250 between the tires and the roadway. The radius of the curve is 50.0 m. If the banking angle is 25˚, what is the maximum speed an automobile...