GATE CE 2020 Set 2 — Question 59

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A cast iron pipe of diameter 600 mm600\text{ mm} and length 400 m400\text{ m} carries water from a tank and discharges freely into air at a point 4.5 m4.5\text{ m} below the water surface in the tank. The friction factor of the pipe is 0.0180.018. Consider acceleration due to gravity as 9.81 m/s29.81\text{ m/s}^2. The velocity of the flow in pipe (in m/s, round off to two decimal places) is ________.
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