Decomposition of acetic acid at high temperature takes place by two parallel reactions following first order kinetics as shown below
If $k_{1} = 3 s^{- 1}$ and $k_{2} = 4 s^{- 1}$ , then what would be the fraction of acetic acid reacting as per reaction (i)?

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Decomposition of acetic acid at high temperature takes place by two parallel reactions following first order kinetics as shown below

If $k_{1} = 3 s^{- 1}$ and $k_{2} = 4 s^{- 1}$ , then what would be the fraction of acetic acid reacting as per reaction (i)?

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K 1 ​ + K 2 ​ K 1 ​ ​ = 3 + 4 3 ​ = 7 3 ​

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