Question

#1: Which of the following statements is true?

Answer 1

Endothermic reactions take in heat from the environment in order to react while exothermic reactions release heat during the reaction. For this, D must be true as the products have less energy because they have released heat during the reaction. A and C are incorrect because they products and reactants are equal and B is wrong because the energy of the products would be more as the reaction took in heat.

Answer 2

Answer: Option (D) is the correct answer.

Explanation:

In an endothermic reaction energy is absorbed by reactant molecules in a chemical reaction as a result energy of products is more than the energy of reactants.  

Whereas in an exothermic reaction energy is released by a chemical reaction as a result energy of reactants is more than the energy of products.  

Therefore, we can conclude that the correct statement is in an exothermic reaction, the energy of the products is less than the energy of the reactants.