Heating an alcohol with concentrated sulphuric acid results in the dehydration of the alcohol to give the alkene as shown by the reaction of ethanol to give ethene. Pramila heated 2-butanol (shown below) with concentrated sulphuric acid. Write the structural formulae of all the possible products of the reaction.

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