Practice Test (Properties of Solutions)
Practice Test (Properties of Solutions)
Practice Test (Properties of Solutions)
11 Properties of Solutions
PRACTICE TEST
1. What is the molality of 7.80% by weight glucose 6. A 1.25 M Cu(NO3)2 (molar mass = 187.56 g/mol)
(C6H12O6 molar mass = 180.16 g/mol) solution? solution has a density of 1.19 g/cm3. What is the
a) 0.470 m d) 0.0454 m weight percent Cu(NO3)2 of the solution?
b) 0.845 m e) 0.0844 m a) 1.88% d) 14.3%
c) 0.0432 m b) 2.36% e) 19.9%
c) 10.5%
2. The mol fraction of NH4Cl in a solution is 0.0311.
What is its molality? 7. Hydrobromic acid (molar mass = 80.9 g/mol) is
(The molar mass of water is 18.016 g/mol.) commercially available in a 34.0 mass percent
a) 1.78 m d) 0.562 m solution which has a density of 1.31 g/cm3. What
b) 1.66 m e) 0.0983 m is the molarity of the commercially available
c) 0.969 m hydrobromic acid?
a) 2.75 M d) 9.35 M
3. What is the mol fraction Na2SO4 in a solution b) 4.45 M e) 10.2 M
which is 11.5% by weight Na2SO4 (molar mass c) 5.50 M
Na2SO4 = 142.06 g/mol and H2O = 18.016
g/mol)? 8. The maximum contamination level of arsenic ion
a) 0.0810 d) 0.0173 in a water system is 0.050 parts per million. If the
b) 0.0914 e) 0.0162 arsenic is present as AsCl3, how many grams of
c) 0.0745 arsenic chloride could be present in a system that
contains 8.2 x 105 Liters?
4. What is the mol fraction NaNO3 in a solution a) 0.55 g d) 62 g
which is 2.15 m? b) 7.3 g e) 98 g
a) 0.0180 d) 0.09387 c) 41 g
b) 0.0268 e) 0.0785
c) 0.0373 9. A student prepared a solution containing 0.30 mol
solute and 1.00 mole solvent. The mole fraction
5. A 1.34 M NiCl2 (molar mass = 129.6 g/mol) of solvent is
solution has a density of 1.12 g/cm3. What is the a) 1.30 d) 0.30
weight percent NiCl2 of the solution? b) 1.00 e) 0.23
a) 1.73% d) 25.4% c) 0.77
b) 8.64% e) 29.8%
c) 15.5%
10. Which measure of concentration is most 15. What is the primary energetic factor in the lack of
appropriate for the calculation of the vapor miscibility between CCl4(l) and water?
pressure of a solution? a) the strength of intermolecular forces between
a) mol fraction d) weight % CCl4 molecules
b) molarity e) ppm b) the strength of intermolecular forces between
c) molality H2O molecules
c) the charge on the C atom in CCl4
11. A chemist knows the empirical formula of a new d) the difference between the molecular weights
compound but not the molecular formula. What of the molecules
must be determined experimentally so that the e) the electronegativity difference between
molecular formula can be determined? carbon and chlorine
a) density d) melting point
b) viscosity e) molar mass 16. Which of the following would have a boiling
c) % composition point closes to that of 1 m NaCl?
a) 1 m sucrose (C12H22O11)
12. A volumetric flask is necessary for the preparation b) pure H2O d) 0.5 m CH3OH
of which one of the following concentration c) 1 m MgCl2 e) 1 m NH4NO3
measurements?
a) molality d) molarity 17. Which of the following would have the highest
b) X e) ppm freezing point?
c) mass % a) 1 m glucose (C6H12O6)
b) 1 m MgCl2 d) 1 m (NH4)2SO4
13. If the pressure of a gas over a liquid increases, the c) 1 m NaNO3 e) pure H2O
amount of gas dissolved in the liquid will
a) increase 18. You need a solution that is 0.15 m in ions. How
b) decrease many grams of MgCl2 (molar mass = 95.2 g/mol)
c) remain the same must you dissolve in 400. g of water? (Assume
d) have a higher vapor pressure total dissociation of the ionic salt.)
e) depends on the polarity of the gas a) 0.060 g d) 7.6 g
b) 1.9 g e) 17 g
14. Which of the following solutions would have the c) 5.7 g
lowest vapor pressure?
a) 1 m glucose (C6H12O6)
b) 1 m MgCl2 d) 1 m NaBr
c) 1 m NaNO3 e) pure H2O
19. A solution is prepared by dissolving 0.500 g of 22. Concentrated salt solutions have boiling points
non-dissociating solute in 12.0 g of cyclohexane. lower than those calculated using the equation,
The freezing point depression of the solution is Tb = Kb · m.· i Which of the following is a
8.94C. The Kfp for cyclohexane is -20.0C/m. reasonable explanation of this observation?
Calculate the molar mass of the solute. a) Positive ions repel each other more at high
a) 93.2 g/mol d) 182 g/mol concentration.
b) 112 g/mol e) 205 g/mol b) Ions of opposite charge will tend to stay
c) 128 g/mol paired instead of breaking up.
c) The water molecules will have a greater
20. What is the freezing point of a solution containing attraction for each other.
4.134 grams naphthalene (molar mass = 128.2) d) Concentrated solutions really have small
dissolved in 30.0 grams paradichlorobenzene? particles of non-dissolved salt, thus lowering
The freezing point of pure paradichlorobenzene is the molality.
53.0C and the freezing point depressing constant e) The difference between the crystal lattice
Kfp is -7.10C/m. energy and the heat of hydration must be
a) 52.0C d) 17.6C taken into consideration.
b) 48.7C e) 7.63C
c) 45.4C
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