Question: Consider 100 kg of sugar beet roots whose sugar content represents 15 percent of total mass. The sugar is converted into ethanol through the reaction

Consider 100 kg of sugar beet roots whose sugar content represents 15 percent of total mass. The sugar is converted into ethanol through the reaction C6H12O6 → 2 C2H5OH + 2 CO2. The amount of ethanol produced is
(a) 15 kg
(b) 13 kg
(c) 9.8 kg
(d) 7.7 kg
(e) 5.5 kg

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