Heat is added to a 2.0 kg piece of ice at a rate of 793.0 kW. How long will it take for the ice to melt if it was initially at 0.00°C? (The latent heat of fusion for water is 334 kJ/kg and its latent heat of vaporization is 2260 kJ/kg.)

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The correct answer is A because the rate of heat addition is much greater than the latent heat of fusion of ice, so the ice will melt very quickly.

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