. You are working at the Loy Farm and are tasked with analyzing water supply for agriculture purposes. Answer the following questions: a) You run an experiment to estimate the water flow rate of the drip irrigation system in the Elon High Tunnel greenhouse. You randomly place 10 small 1-quart paint buckets in the soil along the irrigation system. The table below summarizes the water volume collected in the buckets. The irrigation system was running for 2 hrs. Each bucket has a diameter of 11.2 cm, and volume was measured in milliliters (ml). What is the average drip flow in the irrigation system in inches/hr? (Hint: look up the formula for the area of a circle if you don't already know it). Bucket NumberVolume, ml Bucket NumberVolume, ml1828 64232829 76613915 88854969 93915887 10713 b) The open-air crop beds are 7952 ft2 in area. The soil is prepared to a depth of 24 inches. The soil is clay-loam, which on average has a water holding capacity of 3.2 mm water per cm depth. What is the total volume of water holding capacity in the prepared crop beds, in gallons?

all the calculations above can be done with the help of simple formulas and equation the data available is : number of buckets water collected in each bucket diameter of bucket running time of irrigation systemfirst to calculate the average drip rate we will need the value of average water collected in a bucket so total water collected in two hours is volume in bucket 1 + volume in bucket 2 … +volume in bucket 10 = 7501 so the average volume collected in a bucket is 7501/10 =750ml in two hours so in one hour volume collected = 375ml now the volume of cylinder = pie * (radius)2 * height radius = 11.2/2 cm = 5.6 cm = 2.2 inches so in this case pie * (radius)2 * height = 375 ml so height = 375/(4.84 * pie) so h = 24.67 inches so the drip rate 24.67 inches per hour 7952 square feet = 7387650 cm square 24 inches = 60.96 cm 3.2 ml per cm is the holding capacity if 1 cm of depth has 3.2 ml water then 60.96 cm will have 3.2 * 60.96 ml water = 195 ml water and the total area of water is 7387650 cm square so total capacity is 195 *7387650 ml =1440591750 ml = 380564 galllons

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. You are working at the Loy Farm and are tasked with analyzing water supply for agriculture purposes. Answer the following questions:

a) You run an experiment to estimate the water flow rate of the drip irrigation system in the Elon High Tunnel greenhouse. You randomly place 10 small 1-quart paint buckets in the soil along the irrigation system. The table below summarizes the water volume collected in the buckets. The irrigation system was running for 2 hrs. Each bucket has a diameter of 11.2 cm, and volume was measured in milliliters (ml). What is the average drip flow in the irrigation system in inches/hr? (Hint: look up the formula for the area of a circle if you don't already know it).

Bucket Number	Volume, ml	Bucket Number	Volume, ml
1	828	6	423
2	829	7	661
3	915	8	885
4	969	9	391
5	887	10	713

b) The open-air crop beds are 7952 ft² in area. The soil is prepared to a depth of 24 inches. The soil is clay-loam, which on average has a water holding capacity of 3.2 mm water per cm depth. What is the total volume of water holding capacity in the prepared crop beds, in gallons?

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