A woman finds the front windshield of her car covered with ice at $12\mathrm{.}3\backslash$deg C$.$ The ice has a thickness of $4\mathrm{.}8\backslash$times $104$ m$,$ and the windshield has an area of $1\mathrm{.}17$ m$2.$ The density of ice is $917$ kg$/$m$3.$

How much heat is required to melt the ice? Express the numeral of your answer in kJ with $4$ or more significant figures. 

 

$($Specific heat of ice $=2000$ J$/($kg$.$K$),$ Latent heat of fusion of ice $=33\mathrm{.}5$ x $104$ J$/$kg$)$

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