The given balanced reaction is,
The stoichiometric coefficients of each element or compound represents the number of moles of that element or compound required for the complete reaction to take place.
The mole ratios of different products and reactants will be:
So the mole ratio comparing iron (Fe) and oxygen gas () is
4 : 3
The patch area in square kilometers is 1.59*10⁻⁹ km₂
Why?
This is an unit conversion problem. We have to convert from cm² to km². We can do that by knowing that there are 100 cm in 1 m, and 1000 m in 1 km, so 100000 cm=1km. Knowing that we can apply the following conversion factor:
Now to convert this value to scientific notation, we have to move the decimal point to the right until we get a whole number, and the exponent of the number 10 is going to be the number of spaces we moved to the right (negative), so the final answer is:
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