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Polyethylene Is a Polymer Consisting of Only Carbon and Hydrogen

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Polyethylene is a polymer consisting of only carbon and hydrogen.If 2.300 g of the polymer is burned in oxygen it produces 2.955 g H2O and 7.217 g CO2.What is the empirical formula of polyethylene?


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Null Hypothesis

A statement or assumption that there is no effect or no difference, used as a starting point for statistical significance testing.

Significance Test

A statistical method used to determine if there is a significant difference between groups or conditions, typically by comparing p-values to predefined significance levels.

Outliers

Observations in a dataset that are significantly different from the other data points, often indicating measurement error, variability in measurement, or a novel discovery.

Alternative Hypothesis

In statistics, the hypothesis that proposes there is a difference between two or more groups or variables, contrasted with the null hypothesis.

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