Question

When one atom of carbon reacts with two atoms of oxygen, they combine to form one molecule of carbon dioxide. How many atoms of oxygen must be present in 10 molecules of carbon dioxide?

Answer 1

The equation is: C+O2=>CO2

Since we got 10 molecules of CO2 new balanced equation would be 10C+10O2=>10CO2

from this equation we can see that we have 10 molecules of oxygen, however ,we need to find atoms. There are 2 atoms in the oxygen molecule so we need to multiply 10 by 2 which gives us 20 atoms.

The answer: there are 20 atoms of oxygen