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Make an estimate of the composition of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in the dry mass of a bacterium. Using knowledge of the size and mass of a bacterium, the fraction of that mass that is "dry mass" (that is, ca. 30%) and the chemical constituents of a cell, figure out the approximate small integers (< 10) for the composition CmHnOpNq, that is, find m, n, p, and q.