Question: - Your 1 0 0 0 square - foot basement is flooded with four feet of water. You need to drain the basement in 2

- Your 1000 square-foot basement is flooded with four feet of water. You need to drain the basement in 24 hours and need to determine the size pump to use with four of your 50-foot long, 3/4-inch diameter garden hoses (drawn tubing) connected in series. At the rear of your yard there is a storm drain in which the water surface is 10 feet below the floor of your basement. A quick calculation shows that you should be able to get the hose to reach from the basement floor to the storm drain water surface. Treating the basement water and the storm drain water as large reservoirs and neglecting minor losses, determine the required pump head [ft] and the minimum pump power [hp] required to drain the water from the basement.
- Your 1 0 0 0 square - foot basement is flooded

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