Sulfuric acid is probably the most important industrial chemical because it is used in so many industrial processes to produce or purify other chemicals. It can be produced by a three step process. First, sulfur is burned in air to give sulfur dioxide. Second, the sulfur dioxide is converted to sulfur trioxide by passing the sulfur dioxide over a catalyst in the presence of oxygen at a high temperature. Third, the sulfur trioxide is reacted with water to form sulfuric acid.  What mass of sulfuric acid would be formed from 1.00 x 10³ kg of sulfur, if the three steps gave yields as listed below?

S   +   O₂     ⟶   SO₂                         92.5%

2SO₂   +   O₂     ⟶    2SO₃                 72.6%

SO₃   +   H₂O     ⟶    H₂SO₄              98.2%