Question

Human beings have two arms and an octopus has eight. If one octopus has to catch hold of a few people in such a manner that all the eight arms of the octopus and both arms of all the humans are locked, how many humans do you think the octopus can hold? Represent the octopus with O and humans with H. Can you write a formula for this combination? Do you get OH⁴ as the formula? The subscript 4 indicates the number of humans held by the Octopus.
I) Explain the term for which the given passage is based.
II) If x has an atomic number 3 and y has an atomic number 16. So, what will the formula of the compound​? ​

Answer 1

Explanation:

the octopus will surely hold 4 humans in his arms.

The Octopus has 8 arms and the human has 2 arms so he can catch human=8/2

=4

if applied in chemistry:

compare the hands of octopus to the element hydrogen and the hands of human to that of oxygen then we get :

the formula OH4