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In one fortnight of a given month, there was a rainfall of 10 cm in a river valley. If the area of the valley is 7280 `km^(2)`, show that the total rainfall was approximately equivalent to the total water of three rivers, each 1072 km long, 75 m wide, and 3 m deep.

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`0.7236km^(3)`.
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