Useful shorter hydrocarbons can be produced by the cracking of larger alkanes obtained from crude oil.
The chemical equation shows the cracking of one molecule of dodecane to produce one molecule of pentene and one molecule of another hydrocarbon product.
C12H26→C5H10+CxHy \text{C}_{12}\text{H}_{26} \rightarrow \text{C}_5\text{H}_{10} + \text{C}_x\text{H}_y C12H26→C5H10+CxHyCalculate the values of x x\,x and y y\,y in CxHy\text{C}_x\text{H}_yCxHy.
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