Under an agreement with U.S. regulators American Electric Power Company of Colum
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Under an agreement with U.S. regulators American Electric Power Company of Columbus. Ohio, has agreed to offset part of its 140 million metric tons of cartoon dioxide emissions by paying another company to lay plastic tarns These tarn cower farm lagoons holding rotting livestock wastes that emit methane gas 21 times more damaging to the atmosphere than cartoon dioxide The annual methane produced by a typical 1, 330-pound cow translates into about 5 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. In order to offset the carbon dioxide emissions of this single electric utility. the company has to cover million cows' worth of manure. (Round your response to the nearest integer.) Given that there are about 9 million cows in the United States in a typical year, the percentage of its cartoon dioxide emissions this firm could offset if it paid for all cow manure in the entire nation to be covered with tarns is about 87% 50% 100% 32%Explanation / Answer
a) 28 million ( 140 million divide by 5)
b) 32% ( 9 million multiply by 5 which is 32% of 140 million)
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