Q: Simple mercury barometers were historically particularly useful because the high density of mercury allows a barometer to be only approximately 1 m tall to measure normal fluctuations in atmospheric pressure, which determined the height of the mercury. If a barometer reads a height of 1000 mmHg, what height would be read on a barometer using water instead? The density of mercury is 13.5 g/mL and that of water is 1 g/mL.
A		74 mm
B		74 cm
C		135 cm
D		13.5 m

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