Answer : The mass of oxygen formed must be 3.8 grams.
Explanation :
Law of conservation of mass : It states that mass can neither be created nor be destroyed but it can only be transformed from one form to another form.
This also means that total mass on the reactant side must be equal to the total mass on the product side.
The balanced chemical reaction will be,
According to the law of conservation of mass,
Total mass of reactant side = Total mass of product side
Total mass of 
= Total mass of 
As we are given :
The mass of 
= 25.3 grams
The mass of 
= 23.4 grams
So,
Therefore, the mass of oxygen formed must be 3.8 grams.
I think you add 29.57 + 80 and the answer would be 30.37
You must remember that oxidation number of hydrogen in acids is always +1, oxidation number of oxygen in oxides & acids is always -2... metals has always oxidation number on plus!
group NO3 comes from HNO3...and oxidation number of whole acid group is always on minus and equal to the amount of hydrogen atoms in this acid... so oxidation number of NO3 = -1
we have 2 NO3 groups so 2*(-1) = -2 and that is the reason why oxidation number of Fe in this formula must be +2... because sum of all elements always gives 0!
Now we could count of oxidation number for nitrogen... we write HNO3 and start counting from right to left:
3*(-2) from oxygens + 1 from hydrogen = -5
so nitrogen must have +5 oxidation number... because sum all in formula must be 0.
