[dyingsoul]

Help please! I've tried so hard to come out with the balanced equations but to no avail );

A metallic salt containing the anion IxCly- decomposed when heated to form iodine vapour and the metallic chloride. When 0.270 g of this compound was heated, the iodine evolved was bubbled into excess potassium iodide solution.

The dissolved iodine required 21.30 cm3 of 0.0600 mol dm-3 aqueous sodium thiosulfate for complete reaction. When the residue was dissolved in water, the resulting solution required 6.40 cm3 of 0.100 mol dm-3 aqueous silver nitrate for complete reaction.

Determine the value of x and y in IxCly-.

Hence, determine the identity of the metallic element.

Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you

[Arkcon]

Well, for starters, can you determine the chemical reactions taht are used to determine the iodine and the chlorine amounts?  Can you determine moles of each realsed, so you can determine x and y.