Question: Early in the morning, when the temperature is 5.5 C, gasoline is pumped into a car's 53-L steel gas tank until it is filled to

Early in the morning, when the temperature is 5.5 °C, gasoline is pumped into a car's 53-L steel gas tank until it is filled to the top. Later in the day the temperature rises to 27 °C. Since the volume of gasoline increases more for a given temperature increase than the volume of the steel tank, gasoline will spill out of the tank. How much gasoline spills out in this case?

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