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Author: Konrad B Krauskopf; Arthur Beiser
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11, Problem 31E
(a) Is the percentage of the world’s water that is freshwater 1 percent? 3 percent? 10 percent? 50 percent? (b) Is the proportion of freshwater in the form of ice in the polar regions about one-third? One-half? Two-thirds?
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