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A tanker ship is filled with 2.25 × 105 m3 of gasoline at a refinery in southern Texas when the temperature is 17.2 °C. When the ship arrives in New York City, the temperature is 1.3 °C. If the coefficient of volumetric expansion for gasoline is 9.50 × 10-4/C°, how much has the volume of the gasoline decreased when it is unloaded in New York?


A) 1.50 × 10-2 m3
B) 66.2 m3
C) 1290 m3
D) 3400 m3
E) 1.05 × 104 m3

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