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When the equation for the reaction represented above is balanced and all coefficients are reduced to lowest whole-number terms, the coefficient for is
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Since there are three atoms and two
atoms on the left side of the equation, the number of
on the right side must be divisible by
and by
. The coefficient for
is at least
. If it is
, then there are
,
, and
. These numbers do indeed result in a balanced equation where the coefficients are the lowest whole numbers possible.