Question

Need help please! Theres three parts to this that I don't understand at all

Answer 1

Answer:

Chemical reaction B governs the process

Explanation:

The first part of the question asks to convert the mass of the calcium carbonate given to number of moles.

Mathematically;

Number of moles = mass/molar mass

Molar mass of CaCO3 = 100 g/mol

So the number of moles of CaCO3 will be 2.49/100 = 0.0249 moles

The second part of the question asks to convert the mass of carbon iv oxide to moles of carbon iv oxide

Mathematically;

That is same as ;

Number of moles = mass/molar mass

molar mass of CO2 is 44 g/mol

Number of moles of CO2 = 1.13/44 = 0.0256 moles

Now, if we compare the values of these number of moles, we can see that there are almost equal.

What this means is that the number of moles of calcium carbonate reacted is equal to the number of moles of carbon iv oxide produced.

So what we conclude here is that we have an equal mole ratio between the two compounds.

So the reaction that would be the correct answer will present equal number of moles of carbon iv oxide and calcium carbonate

Thus, we can see that reaction B is the one that governs this process as it is the only reaction out of the three options that present the two compounds with equal number of moles.