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Balancing equations is not as difficult as it looks. While some problems might look incredibly difficult it could just come down to few coefficient changes. The first step in balancing equations is to figure out how much of the elements you have. An easy way that you can find how much of each element there is, is to simply wright down in a column, each element that there is in the problem. The following is an example. Since there is 1 Mg on the left side of the equation Mg=1 that is the same with H and Cl. On the right side of the equation Mg is also 1 but Cl and H both have a subscript of 2. This makes Cl and H have 2 elements. All of the elements have a coefficient of 1 which is not show in the equation.



After you figure out how much of the element there is in the equation. You can now Figure out how much of a difference there is between the left and right side of the equation. If there is no difference between equations, then it is balanced but, in this case, there is a difference between the left and the right side. Since the difference is on the right side Is 2 instead of 1 you need to get the left side to also have 2 for Cl and H. The way to do that is to multiply HCl by 2. To do this you add a coefficient of 2 Infront of the HCl of the left side.

Now you can try a more difficult problem. The only difference with this problem is that it has a set of parentheses in it. All the parentheses indicate is multiplication. The subscript outside the parentheses is what you multiply two what is inside the parentheses.