Question

What does the chemical formula C3H6O2 tell about a molecule of the compound it represents?

Answer 1

C3H6O2 is a molecular formula of the compound. Molecular formulas indicate the simple numbers of each type of atom in a molecule, with no information on structure. As far as we do not know how the atoms connected in the molecule we can not tell anything of the compound which it represents. In case of C3H6O2 there are 32 possible structures with the same molecular formula.