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The length of the steel structure of a bridge is 0.5 km and it has to withstand temperature change from `44^(@)F` to `116^(@)F`. What allowance should be kept for its expansion if the coefficient of linear expansion of steel is `1 times 10^(-5@)C^(-1)`?

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