Product Ratio for Nitration Reaction of Benzene

[SaintJude]

NEVERMIND..Answer is generally, yeah.

So just did a experimental science passage and the passage included:

A simple nitration of benzene (HNO3 w/ sulfuric acid as catalyst) to yield nitrobenzene.
63% was ortho
34% was para
3% was in the meta direction

Will this pretty much always be the ratio (2 ortho:1 para) ?

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[BerkReviewTeach]

NEVERMIND..Answer is generally, yeah.

So just did a experimental science passage and the passage included:

A simple nitration of benzene (HNO3 w/ sulfuric acid as catalyst) to yield nitrobenzene.
63% was ortho
34% was para
3% was in the meta direction

Will this pretty much always be the ratio (2 ortho:1 para) ?

Benzene reactivity is NOT TESTED on the MCAT. They removed it in 2004.