Question

Determine the number of moles in 382.5g of CO-2

Answer 1

Answer: 8.691 mols of CO₂

Explanation:

To find the number of moles in a given grams, you want to use the molar mass.

Let's first find the molar mass of CO₂.

Carbon's molar mass is 12.011 g/mol

Oxygen's molar mass is 15.999 g/mol

To find molar mass of CO₂, we want to add up the molar mass of carbon and oxygen. Remember, there are 2 Oxygens so we need to mulitply that by 2.

12.011+2(15.999)=44.009 g/mol

Now that we have molar mass, we can convert 382.5 g to mols.

$382.5g*\frac{1 mol}{44.009g} =8.691 mol$

There are about 8.691 mols of CO₂.