You will learn in this course that organic compounds have covalent bonds with a significant amount of energy stored in them. This is why we burn fossil fuels to generate energy to heat our homes or drive our cars. Given this information, which of the compounds listed below would you expect to have the most energy is its carbon-carbon bond?

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Explanation:

This question is obviously supposed to be a multiple choice question but the options are missing.

However, the question intends to test the student's knowledge about combustion of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are mostly composed of hydrocarbons of different chain lengths.

The longer the chain length, the greater the energy released when the compound is burnt since there are more energy stored in its bonds.

Hence, the correct answer to this question will be the option that contains the greatest number of C-C and C-H bonds.