142A Practiceexam3 W20KEY
142A Practiceexam3 W20KEY
142A Practiceexam3 W20KEY
1. Determine the number of electrons transferred in the reaction below by balancing it in acidic medium.
Br- (aq) + MnO4- (aq) → Br2 (l) + Mn2+ (aq)
Find and balance the half reactions: 2Br-(aq) → Br2 (l) MnO4- (aq) → Mn2+(aq)
Add waters balance O: 2Br (aq) → Br2 (l)
- MnO4- (aq) → Mn2+(aq) + 4H2O (l)
+
Add H to balance H: 2Br (aq) → Br2 (l)
- 8H (aq) + MnO4- (aq) → Mn2+(aq) + 4H2O (l)
+
Add e- to both sides to balance the charges: 2Br (aq) → Br2 (l) + 2e
- - 5e- + 8H+(aq) + MnO4- (aq) → Mn2+(aq) + 4H2O (l)
Multiply the half reactions by a multiplier to get the same number of electrons.
5 x [2Br-(aq) → Br2 (l) + 2e-] 2 x [5e- + 8H+(aq) + MnO4- (aq) → Mn2+(aq) + 4H2O (l)]
10e- are transferred between the two half-reactions.
H2 + I2 → 2 HI
3. In a laboratory experiment, several different concentrations of NOBr were decomposed and the rates of
those processes are listed below. Determine the order of the reaction:
2 NOBr (g) → 2 NO (g) + Br2 (g)
4. The hydrogen sulfate or bisulfate ion, HSO4- can act as either an acid or a base in water solution. Write
the balanced chemical equation describing HSO4- acting as an acid in water.
6. Using your balanced reaction and the data provided in 5., calculate the mass of precipitate that forms
when the solutions are mixed together.
7. Using your balanced equation and the data provided in 5., calculate the final concentration of
carbonate in the solution after the reaction.
We know that 0.0281 moles of CO32- reacted. Find the remaining: 0.158 moles – 0.0281 moles = 0.130
moles remain. Divide this by the total volume, which is 0.525 L + 0.225 L = 0.750 L
0.130 𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠
[𝐶𝑂32− ] = = 0.173 𝑀
0.750 𝐿
8. A student pipettes 5.00 mL of a 0.225 M NaCl solution into a 100.0 mL volumetric flask. What is the
concentration of the diluted NaCl solution?
10. The rate law for a reaction, AB → A + B is zero order with a rate constant of 0.340 M.s-1. What is the half-
life when the initial concentration of AB is 0.762 M?
Using table 15.6 in the textbook, t1/2 = [A]0/2k for zero order reactions.
11. When 150.0 mL of a 0.100 M solution of KCl is mixed with 100.0 mL of a 0.100 M Pb(NO3)2 solution,
which ion will have a concentration of approximately zero after precipitation has occurred?
12. For a particular reactant it takes 100 seconds to decrease the concentration of the reactant from 0.320
M to 0.160 M and another 200 seconds to decrease the concentration to 0.080 M. What is the order of
the reaction?
The concentration decreases by half (0.320 M to 0.160 M) in the first 100 seconds. This is the
length of the first half-life. The second half-life is 200 seconds (0.160 M to 0.080 M).
First order reactions have a constant half-life, so this reaction cannot be first order.
The half-life for a second order reaction is inversely proportional to concentration, meaning
the half-life gets longer the lower the concentration. Therefore, the reaction is second order.