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Question: Viking Vessel Company manufacturers cylindrical gas storage tanks. The company foresees a market for nominal 100-ft³ tanks of varying proportions. The tanks are to be rated at 60 psi. Viking uses steel with an allowable tensile stress of 15,000 psi. Welded joints are fully inspected, and a 100% joint efficiency may be assumed. Write a program that will generate a table of required wall thicknesses for tanks that have length-to-diameter ratios ranging (approximately) from 1.0 to 4.0. Diameters are to be in 2-in. increments. Lengths should be rounded up to the next 2-in. increment so that the volume of the tank is 100 ft3, minimum. The output should be a list showing diameter, length, volume, and required wall thickness. (The thickness may be rounded up to 0.01 in.)