Question 1207761
A sugar molecule has twice as many atoms of hydrogen as it does oxygen and one more atom of carbon than oxygen. If a sugar molecule has a total of 45 atoms, how many are oxygen? How many are hydrogen?

Let number of oxygen atoms be x
number of hydrogen atoms will be 2x

Number of carbon atoms = x+1

x+x+1+2x = 45

4x +1 = 45
4x = 44
x = 11  => 11 oxygen atoms

Hydrogen 2x = 22 atoms