Question

A sample of a compound that contains only the elements C, H, and N is completely burned in O2 to produce 44.0 g of CO2, 45.0 g of H2O, and some NO2 . A possible empirical formula of the compound is

Answer 1

Explanation:

what you have to do is to multiply the given grams with the ratio of grams of that certain element in it's full compound in order to isolate the compound and get the element.

because the question did not specify how many grams of NO2 is formed, we can assume that the mass is neglegible, thus 1 mole was assigned to Nitrogen.