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Hydrostatic pressure is a scalar quantity even though pressure is force divided by area.

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Due to applied force on liquid , the pressure is transmitted equally in all directions inside the liquid . That is why there is no fixed direction for the pressure due to liquid . Hence hydrostastic pressure is a scalar quantity.
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