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The overall rate of a reaction is govern...

The overall rate of a reaction is governed by :

A

rate of the faster intermediate steps

B

sum of total of the reates of all intermediate steps

C

average of the rates of all the intermediate steps

D

rate of the slowest intermediate step

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