The annual rainfall at a place is $43 c m$ . Find the weight in metric tonnes of the annual rain falling there on a hectare of land, taking the weight of water to be $1$ metric tonne to a cubic metre.

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Area of land $= 1$ hectare
$= 10000$ sq.m
Volume of rainfall $= \frac{10000 \times 43}{100} c u b . m .$
$= 4300$ cubic m
Weight of water $= 4300 \times 1 m$ tonnes
$= 4300$ metric tonnes

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The annual rainfall at a place is 43cm. Find the weight in metric tonnes of the annual rain falling there on a hectare of land, taking the weight of water to be 1 metric tonne to a cubic metre.

Area of land =1 hectare =10000 sq.mVolume of rainfall =10000×43100cub.m. =4300 cubic mWeight of water =4300×1m tonnes =4300 metric tonnes

The annual rainfall at a place is $43 c m$ . Find the weight in metric tonnes of the annual rain falling there on a hectare of land, taking the weight of water to be $1$ metric tonne to a cubic metre.

Area of land $= 1$ hectare
$= 10000$ sq.m
Volume of rainfall $= \frac{10000 \times 43}{100} c u b . m .$
$= 4300$ cubic m
Weight of water $= 4300 \times 1 m$ tonnes
$= 4300$ metric tonnes