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Write one paragraph explaining if the plant will make enough oxygen for a human tosurvive on Mars. Explain how you figured it out.

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To know if the plant will make enough oxygen for a human to survive on Mars, we need to calculate how much oxygen it produces using the photosynthesis equation ratio:

1 mole of Glucose --- 6 mol of oxygen

0.09 moles of Glucose --- x mol of oxygen

x = 0.54 moles of oxygen.

According to the data, a human needs 25 moles of oxygen per day to live and the plant produces just 0.54 moles of oxygen. One plant is not enough for a human to survive on Mars. We would need:

0.54 moles of oxygen ---- 1 plant

25 moles of oxygen ---- x plants

0.54x = 25

x = 46.3 plants

We would need 46.3 plants to produce enough oxygen for a human.

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