Treatment of an organic compound with hot, concentrated

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Treatment of an organic compound with hot, concentrated hydriodic acid (also known as the Zeisel analysis) yields CH-I, indicating the presence of a methoxyl group (-OCH;). Unknown organic compound F (one of the opium alkaloids used in antispasmodic medicine, whose formula is CisH₂NO3) was treated with hot concentrated hydriodic acid to determine the number of methoxyl groups present in the molecule. When 7.12 mg of compound F is treated with hydriodic acid and the CH-1 thus formed is passed into alcoholic silver nitrate, 10.73 mg of silver iodide is obtained. How many methoxyl groups per molecule of compound F would be indicted by the results of this Zeisel analysis? (3 points)