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Transcribed Image Text:Complete combustion of 4.70 g of a hydrocarbon produced 15.1 g of CO2 and 5.15 g of H2O. What is the empirical formula
for the hydrocarbon? Insert subscripts as necessary.
empirical formula: ||C,H,
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