Valuable minerals (chemicals) can be obtained from ores, which are natually occuring mixtures. One ore cotains 38% magnetite, a mineral with the chemical formual Fe3O4. Fe3O4 contains 72.4% iron. What mass of ore (in tons) would contain 3.5 tons of iron? (Hint: your mass percent conversion factors can have units of tons)

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Valuable minerals (chemicals) can be obtained from ores, which are natually occuring mixtures. One ore cotains 38% magnetite, a mineral with the chemical formual Fe3O4. Fe3O4 contains 72.4% iron. What mass of ore (in tons) would contain 3.5 tons of iron? (Hint: your mass percent conversion factors can have units of tons) 

*Mass percent values used in calculations should be written as conversion factors with units & labels 

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