Consider water flow through a horizontal, short garden hose at a rate of 30 kg/min. The velocity at the inlet is 1.5 m/s and that at the outlet is 14.5 m/s. Disregard the weight of the hose and water. Taking the momentum-flux correction factor to be 1.04 at both the inlet and the outlet, the anchoring force required to hold the hose in place is

(a) 2.8 N

(b) 8.6 N 

(c) 17.5 N 

(d) 27.9 N 

(e) 43.3 N