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Given information

Given:

Reaction shown here is experimentally observed to be second order in  and first order in .

To Find: 

If the reaction occur in single step or not.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Hint: 

According to rate law,

 

where,

  • and are the concentrations of the compounds
  • is the rate
  • is rate constant
  •  and   are reaction orders

For first order reaction rate law is found to be directly proportional to the concentration of a single reactant i.e. 

........(1)

or simply

 

 

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