Hi everyone - I was wondering if anyone would be able to explain this question to me? It's from the AQA specimen paper 2 (set 1), and I can't work out how to get the molecular formula from it...
"03.8) Isooctane reacts with an excess of chlorine to form a mixture of chlorinated compounds.
One of these compounds contains 24.6% carbon and 2.56% hydrogen by mass.
Calculate the molecular formula of this compound." (3 marks)
I've managed to get to the empirical formula (C4H5Cl4), but from there the mark scheme just says "Mr = C8H10Cl8" with no explanation of how they got there! An Mr of the actual compound hasn't been given (as usually I'd divide that by the Mr of the empirical formula to get the molecular formula), so I'm at a bit of a loss.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!