You Would Like to Drink Water Through a Straw That

You would like to drink water through a straw that is 12 cm long, held vertically. The atmospheric pressure is standard, 101.3 kPa. With one end of the straw just inside your mouth, and the other just beneath the water surface, what maximum pressure inside your mouth would enable you to drink the water? Ignore viscosity.

A) 94.5 kPa
B) 102.5 kPa
C) 100.1 kPa
D) 89.5 kPa

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