17. The first four compounds in a chemical series are:
What would be the next member of the series?
a) C5H10
b) C5H12
C) C6H12
D) C6H14
The best answer would be answer b, which
is C5H12. In the series, the trend is that C increases by 1 each time as the
number of H increases by 2.
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