A scientist is trying to determine whether a certain substance is radioactive. Which question would be most helpful to ask?

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Well a question to ask would be if the mass of the material has changed significantly as that would determine that the substance is radioactive or if there have been any high readings found by a Geiger meter in certain period of time

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The ratio of nitrogen to oxygen by mass in NO is 7.0:8.0. Identify the ratio of nitrogen to oxygen by mass in NO2 and N2O7 .

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This problem is providing the ratio of nitrogen to oxygen by mass in nitrogen monoxide, NO, as 7.0:8.0 and asks for the same ratio but in NO₂ and N₂O₇. After doing the calculations, the results are 7.0:16.0 and 1.0:4.0 respectively.

<h3>Mass ratios:</h3>

In chemistry, one can calculate the mass ratios in chemical formulas according to the atomic mass of each atom. In such a way, one knows the mass ratio of nitrogen to oxygen in NO is 7.0:8.0 because we divide the atomic mass of nitrogen by oxygens:

$\frac{14}{16}=\frac{7.0}{8.0}$

Now, for chemical formulas with subscripts, one must multiply the atomic mass of the element by the subscript in the formula, which is the case of NO₂ and N₂O₇ as shown below:

$NO_2:\frac{14}{16*2}=\frac{14}{32} =\frac{7.0}{16.0} \\
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N_2O_7:\frac{14*2}{16*7}=\frac{28}{112} =\frac{1.0}{4.0}$