C, The atomic mass. This could also cause certain elements (i.e. Uranium, Plutonium) to radioactively decay in process called nuclear fission.
Answer:
- <u>1. Equation: 2x + 3 = 9x - 11</u>
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- <u>2. Each row has 2 chairs</u>
Explanation:
The variable x represents the number of chairs in each row.
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<u>1. She can form 2 rows of a given length with 3 chairs left over.</u>
Thus, she has:
number of rows number of chairs in chairs number of chairs
each row left over she has
2 x 3 2x + 3
<u>2. She can form 9 rows of the same length if she gets 11 more chairs.</u>
That means that she is short in 11 chairs to have 9x chairs, or that she has 11 less chairs than 9x chairs. Then she has:
<u>3. Equation:</u>
Then, number of chairs she has is 2x + 3 and, also, 9x - 11, which allows to set the equation:
<u>4. Solve the equation:</u>
Therefore, each row has 2 chairs, and she has 2x + 3 = 4 + 3 = 7 chairs.
The empirical formula is K₂O.
The empirical formula is the <em>simplest whole-number ratio</em> of atoms in a compound.
The <em>ratio of atom</em>s is the same as the <em>ratio of moles</em>.
So, our job is to calculate the <em>molar ratio</em> of K to O.
Step 1. Calculate the <em>moles of each element
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Moles of K = 32.1 g K × (1 mol K/(39.10 g K =) = 0.8210 mol K
Moles of O = 6.57 g O × (1 mol O/16.00 g O) = 0.4106 mol 0
Step 2. Calculate the <em>molar ratio of each elemen</em>t
Divide each number by the smallest number of moles and round off to an integer
K:O = 0.8210:0.4106 = 1.999:1 ≈ 2:1
Step 3: Write the <em>empirical formula
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EF = K₂O
