{"id":244049,"date":"2025-07-04T18:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=244049"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:38:15","slug":"when-the-equation-below-is-properly-balanced-what-coefficient-is-of-kclo3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/04\/when-the-equation-below-is-properly-balanced-what-coefficient-is-of-kclo3\/","title":{"rendered":"When the equation below is properly balanced, what coefficient is of KClO3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the equation below is properly balanced, what coefficient is of KClO3? KClO3 \u2192 KCl + O2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> a. 1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b. 2 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c. 3 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d. 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>b. 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s how to balance the equation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unbalanced chemical equation is: KClO3\u2192KCl+O2KClO_3 \\rightarrow KCl + O_2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, start by looking at the potassium (K) and chlorine (Cl) atoms. On the left side, there is one potassium (K) atom and one chlorine (Cl) atom in <strong>KClO3<\/strong>, and on the right side, one potassium (K) atom and one chlorine (Cl) atom in <strong>KCl<\/strong>. These are already balanced, so we don&#8217;t need to adjust the potassium or chlorine coefficients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, focus on the oxygen atoms. On the left side, there are three oxygen atoms in <strong>KClO3<\/strong>, and on the right side, there are two oxygen atoms in <strong>O2<\/strong>. To balance the oxygen atoms, we need to find the smallest common multiple of 3 and 2, which is 6. So, we adjust the coefficients to balance the oxygen atoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the left side, place a coefficient of 2 in front of <strong>KClO3<\/strong>, giving: 2KClO3\u2192KCl+O22KClO_3 \\rightarrow KCl + O_2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now there are 6 oxygen atoms on the left side (2 \u00d7 3). To balance, place a coefficient of 3 in front of <strong>O2<\/strong>: 2KClO3\u21922KCl+3O22KClO_3 \\rightarrow 2KCl + 3O_2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, check the balance of all elements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Potassium: 2 on both sides.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chlorine: 2 on both sides.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oxygen: 6 on both sides (3 \u00d7 2 = 6).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the equation is now balanced with the correct coefficient of <strong>2<\/strong> for <strong>KClO3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the equation below is properly balanced, what coefficient is of KClO3? KClO3 \u2192 KCl + O2 a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 The correct answer and explanation is: The correct answer is b. 2. Here\u2019s how to balance the equation: The unbalanced chemical equation is: KClO3\u2192KCl+O2KClO_3 \\rightarrow KCl + O_2 First, start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}