A tanker truck transports gasoline in a horizontal cylindrical tank with diameter 8 ft and length 40 ft. If the tank is full of gasoline with d

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A tanker truck transports gasoline in a horizontal cylindrical tank with diameter 8 ft and length 40 ft. If the tank is full of gasoline with density 47 lb/ft^3, compute the force exerted on one end of the tank.

The textbook says that the answer to the above question is 9450 N, but I am not sure how to solve this question to get to that correct answer. (The answer above includes all the information provided in the textbook regarding this question).

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