Explanation:
The molar mass of the compounds are incorrect
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Answer:
D) He did not multiply the chlorine and oxygen atoms by the coefficient 4.
Explanation:
The coefficient 4 at the beginning of the chemical formula indicates that there are four Ca(ClO3)2 molecules. Think of this as Ca(ClO3)2 × 4. This means that he had to multiply the number of atoms for each element by 4 as well, so he should've ended up with 4 total calcium atoms (which is correct), 8 total chlorine atoms, and and 24 total oxygen atoms. He did not get all these answers because he didn't multiply the chlorine and oxygen atoms by the coefficient 4.
When given percents for an empirical formula problem, first consider all the percents as grams.
58.82% carbon —> 58.82 g carbon
27.45% nitrogen —> 27.45 g nitrogen
13.73% hydrogen —> 13.73 g hydrogen
Then convert the grams of all the elements to moles, based on their molar masses.
Carbon - 58.82 g / 12.01 g/mol = 4.898 mol carbon
Nitrogen - 27.45 g / 14.01 g/mol = 1.959 mol nitrogen
Hydrogen - 13.73 g / 1.008 g/mol = 13.62 mol hydrogen
Then divide all of the mole numbers by the smallest number of moles, which is in this case, the 1.959 mol of nitrogen.
Carbon - 4.898 / 1.959 = 2.5
Nitrogen - 1.959 / 1.959 = 1
Hydrogen - 13.62 / 1.959 = 7
You want whole numbers for all of your mole numbers, so multiply all of them by 2, since 2.5 isn’t a whole number.
Final answer: C5N2H14
Rise over run. Just like you have set up. If you plotted the data points subtract (y2-y1)/(x2-X1)
