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Environmental Chemistry Question on Some Important Carbon Compounds – Ethanol And Ethanoic Acid

In a region, total annual consumption of gasoline is 30.6 million tons. The land required for growing sugarcane to produce enough bioethanol to replace the gasoline completely is ___________ km2km^2 (an integer value).
Ethanol energy equivalent is 67% of gasoline, gasoline density is 850 kg/m3kg/m^3, yield of bioethanol produced from sugarcane per hectare of land is 3750 L, and 1 km2km^2 = 100 hectares

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The correct answer is : 143280 to 144000