In the simulation, were you able to use noninteger numbers (like ½ or 0.43) for the coefficients in a balanced equation? why do you think this is?

By standard convention, decimals and fractions are avoided or rather do away with when balancing chemical equations.

We do not have decimals when balancing equations, because we are balancing atoms and molecules. You can't cut an atom or a molecule in half after all, so you must use whole numbers.

By doing away with decimals and fractions, mole relationships between reactants and products are simply presented.

It is much more understandable and presentable to say; "2 moles of Hydrogen gas reacts with 1 mole of oxygen gas to form2moles of water molecule"

Rather than; "1 moles of Hydrogen gas reacts with 1/2 mole of oxygen gas to form 1 moles of water molecule"

odds are decent that your handwriting right now looks a little bit different than it did five years ago, and will look different again in five more. when i look back through my notebooks from middle school to now, i see a long, slow progression from meticulous and teeny letters to bigger, sloppier ones, plus a few side detours: sometime in high school, for example, i decided those loopy cursive lowercase f’s were just the coolest, adopting them as the lone rep for cursive in my otherwise all-print handwriting.

explanation:

43.452

step-by-step explanation:

284 times .153 = 43.452