Thursday, February 12, 2009

Take Home Exam- each person may post a maximum of 10 questions. I want you to do your own work, struggle a little, and ask questions only if absolutely necessary

Please post comments, questions in this section for the take home exam.

48 comments:

  1. which pair of compounds has the same empirical formula?

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  2. LJ:

    ur talking about number one right?
    wells..empirical means that the subscript is in its simplest form, so you look through the choices and simplify all of them. Choice A would be the answer because both of the compounds, when simplified, is CH. 2 and 2 simpify to one and 6 and 6 simplify to one also.
    Hope you find this helpful.

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  3. LJ: For number 2, the only choice that is in the simplest form is Choice (A). Choice (B) and (C) can both be simplified even more by dividing the coefficients by 2. You can divide the last one by 3. Choice (A) can not be simplified even more since if you divide both coefficients in the compound by 2, you'd end up with PO2.5 which is not possible. Hope this helped? o-o;;

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  4. did my last post count as help or just giving an answer..... o-o;;

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  5. what is the correctly represented by the formula H2SO4? for #14 do we put it in grams to grams or moles to moles?

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  6. wow I should really start this...take home exam... ~.~ Uhmm I'll check it later when I finish my global work..
    [Useless post]

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  7. what is the correctly represented by the formula H2SO4? for #14 do we find it grams to grams or moles to moles?

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  8. how do you find the empirical formula of a compound that contains 28% iron,24%sulfur, and 48% oxygen by mass?

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  9. I think H2O2 is a molecule..what do you mean by example?

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  10. for # 14 your putting it in mole to mole because their asking anout the molecular ratio and therefore Al2O3 is
    2 moles of aluminim to 3 moles of oxygen

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  11. Did anyone balance the equation for number 38?i can't figure it out :[

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  12. the balanced equation would be:

    1Fe2O3+3CO -> 2Fe+3CO2

    I just guessed and checked the numbers given and 3 worked.

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  14. Can anybody help me with number 13?

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  17. for # 24 what is the empirical formula of a compound that contains 28%iron 24%sulfur 48%oxygen by mass?

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  19. for number 15 which quantity can correctly be represented by the symbol He?

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  20. Lilly for number 15, i got A-1 mole of atoms.
    If you look at the other choice, they dont make sense. 10 grams of atoms would not be He, 3x10^23 atoms is wrong because its suppose to be 6.02x10^23, and the last one says liters and thats out of the question. "He" can represent 1 mole of atoms , since it has no other coefficienT.

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  21. For number 24 i got D
    First I did the math for each of them, I found the molecular mass
    FeSO3-136
    FeSO4-152
    Fe2(SO3)3-352
    Fe2(SO4)3-400

    Then you start with the first coumpound, the mass of Fe is 56, so 56/136= .41, we need it to be .28, for the second one its 56/152= .36, for the third, its 112/352= .31, and for the last one its 112/400 = .28, since the last one fits in so far, then you check it for all the elements, S- 32x3/400= .24 0- 16x12/400 = .48
    Therefore D is the answer.

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  22. For number 55, what did u guys get for the limitting and exess reactants?

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  23. For 55, Chlorine is the excess. Phosphrus is the limit.

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  24. I tried it again, and I got the opposite, I got Cl2 is the limiting and P4 is the excess. im not sure now lol

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  27. I need help with number 52

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  28. first you have to balance the equation which is as followed 5a=c,12a=2d,2b=2c+d. A=2,B=16,C=10,D=12. C5H12+8O2--5CO2+6H2O.then you do 5.0molO2 which is equal 18.01528gH2O/31.9988molO2. then 2.814993062gH2O= 1mol/18.01528gH2O which then equals .1562558596molH2O

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  29. for #42 all you have to do is multiply 1.5 and 5 right? cause im not sure

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  30. i am confused on #13. i got B is that right

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  31. Hey all, real quick question, are we supposed to do the short answer questions on a separate piece of paper or can we do it on the test? Or does it not really matter?

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  32. we answer the short answers on a separate piece of paper.

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  33. Need some help with 52. I'm almost certain I've balanced the equations, the coefficients I have are 1, 8, 5, and 6, respectively. I need to know if those are correct because I'm not 100% on them seeing as how when I try to solve it the answers aren't whole numbers. Thanks in advance!

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  34. i need some help with #55 for the equation i got Cl2+P4= P5Cl

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  35. Borana
    you are right the limiting is Cl the excess is P i was confuse myself on that one but when i did it a few time it still came out to be that

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  36. Nils,
    You've balanced it correctly. There are 5 carbons, 12 hydrogens, and 16 oxygens on each side.

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  37. Okay, so if it's correct then how would you change the coefficients so that there would be 5 moles of oxygen for number 52? I tried dividing each side by 1.6 since 8/1.6 = 5, but I'm not sure if that would lead to a correct answer (which, according to my work, is 6/1.6 = 3.75 mol of H20).

    Also, while we're on the short answers, what did everyone get for 55c? I got 52.060 grams but I'm going to redo the entire problem because that doesn't seem right when applied to the other problems, specifically d. Anyone got a different answer?

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  38. Just re-did my calculations and ended up with 38.658, which seems a lot better. Anyone get something similar?

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  40. GUYS! Is phosphorus pentachloride P4Cl5?

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  41. yes jamie P4cl5 is phosphorus pentachloride

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  42. Oh, WOW. I completely forgot that it was P4Cl5, I was just doing PCl5. Thanks guys!

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