Imagine that you are a geologist trying to determine the amount of iron in the samples of rocks in a mountain side. A typical reaction used to determine the amount of iron in a sample is to combine it in a reaction with permanganate ion, MnO4-, with Fe2+ in an acidic solution. The skeleton reaction is: MnO4-(aq) + Fe2+(aq) à Mn2+(aq) + Fe3+(aq)

Write the half reactions for this reaction.
Write the balanced equation for this reaction.

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5Fe2+(aq) 5Fe3+(aq) + 5e- MnO4-(aq) + 8H+(aq) + 5e- Mn2+(aq) + 4H2O ------------------------------------------------------------ 5Fe2+(aq) + MnO4-(aq) + 8H+(aq) 5Fe3+(aq) + Mn2+(aq) + 4H2O
This is what I got as the balanced equation can you tell me if it is correct