Finding specific weight of unknown fluid in a manometer

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Hey everyone!
Here is the problem I have been tackling but did not end up with the correct answer

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The extra red arrows I have labelled in myself and called these distances h1,h2 and h3. I assumed the pressure to be the same at levels A & B, hence i have established expressions for both of these and got the following

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However this is not right and the right answer is actually 13.0 kN/m3. What did I do wrong exactly?

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Nevermind I think I got the right answer now by doing something slightly different. I repositioned A & B to to be at the bottom of the manometer on both sides like this

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I redid the method I used before in my first post. I got specific weight to come out as 12.95320... kN/m3 which is approx 13.0 kN/m3 to 3 sig figs
 
Bolter said:
Nevermind I think I got the right answer now by doing something slightly different. I repositioned A & B to to be at the bottom of the manometer on both sides like this

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I redid the method I used before in my first post. I got specific weight to come out as 12.95320... kN/m3 which is approx 13.0 kN/m3 to 3 sig figs
Probably round off errors. My calculation according to the method in the original post gave, to 3 sig. figs., 1.32×103 kg/m3. Note the correct units of density; the factor of ##g## cancels out.
 
kuruman said:
Probably round off errors. My calculation according to the method in the original post gave, to 3 sig. figs., 1.32×103 kg/m3. Note the correct units of density; the factor of ##g## cancels out.

Its not asking for density, its asking for specific weight I believe which has units kN/m3
 
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