1. Table sugar is a compound known as sucrose. Sucrose is composed of the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Analysis of a 20.0 g of sucrose from a bag of sugar finds that the sugar is composed of 8.44 g of carbon, 1.30 g of hydrogen, and 10.26 g of oxygen. a. Express, as fractions, the ratio of the mass of each element to the total mass of the sample. b. Using these ratios, calculate the percent composition by mass of each element in the compound.
