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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 3#️⃣ Question 21 TOSS UP✍️ Short Answer

When potassium permanganate (per-mang-uh-nate), KMnO4 (read: K M N O four), is added to oxalic acid, H2C2O4 (read: H two C two O four), in acidic aqueous solution, a redox reaction occurs. Given that the permanganate ion is reduced to manganese (II) ions, Mn^2+, and oxalic acid is oxidized to carbon dioxide, how many electrons are exchanged in the full balanced equation for this reaction?

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