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College Edition articles.- Assuming that a hectare (1.0 hectare 0.01 square
kilometer) of tropical rain forest absorbs 0.85 metric tons
of carbon dioxide per year, what would be the total an-
nual growth in the carbon footprint (carbon emitted but
not absorbed by vegetation because of deforestation) in
metric tons of carbon dioxide per year from deforestation
for each of the five countries in the table?