Explanation

(b)
Presence of electron withdrawing group such as $NO_{2},CHO$ etc, on benzene nucleus, makes phenol more acidic by stabilising phenoxide ion while presence of electron releasing groups such as $–CH_{3} - C_{2}H_{5}$ destabilises the phenoxide ion, thus makes the phenol less acidic. Hence, the order of acidity of given compound is
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