MEASUREMENTS

1. Suppose an object is moving at 66 ft/sec. How fast would you have to drive a car in order
to keep pace with this object? Convert it to miles/hour.

2. You are mixing some concrete for a home project, and you've calculated according to the
directions that you need six gallons of water for your mix. But your bucket isn't calibrated,
so you don't know how much it holds. On the other hand, you just finished a two-liter
bottle of soda. If you use the bottle to measure your water, how many times will you need to
fill it?

= (6 × 3.785) liters = 22.71 L

Since my bottle holds two liters, then:

3. You find out that the average household in Mesa, Arizona, uses about 0.86 acre-feet of
water every year. You get your drinking water home-delivered in those big five-gallon
bottles for the water dispenser. How many of these water bottles would have to be stacked
in your driveway to equal 0.86 acre-feet of water?

= 56,050.04592.... bottles
4. You've been watching a highway construction project that you pass on the way home
from work. They've been moving an incredible amount of dirt. You call up the information
line, and find out that, when all eighty trucks are running with full crews, the project
moves about nine thousand cubic yards of dirt each day. You think back to the allegedly
"good old days" when work was all done manually, and wonder how many
wheelbarrowsful of dirt would be equivalent to nine thousand cubic yards of dirt. You go
to your garage, and see that your wheelbarrow is labeled on its side as holding six cubic
feet. Since people wouldn't want to overfill their barrows, spill their load, and then have to
start over, you assume that this stated capacity is a good measurement. How many
wheelbarrow loads would it take to move the same amount of dirt as those eighty trucks?

= 40,500 wheelbarrows

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 STOICHIOMETRY
1. Calculate the number of moles in 250 mg of
aspirin, C9H8O4.
𝑚 = 250 𝑚𝑔 𝐶9 𝐻8 𝑂4

1𝑔 1𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐶9 𝐻8 𝑂4
𝑚 = 250 𝑚𝑔 𝐶9 𝐻8 𝑂4 × ×
103 𝑚𝑔 180.17 𝑔 𝐶9 𝐻8 𝑂4

𝑛 = 1.4 × 10 − 3 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐶9𝐻8𝑂4𝑚 = 250 𝑚𝑔 𝐶9 𝐻8 𝑂4

2. Calculate the number of moles in 25.0 g of

ammonium chloride.
𝑛 = 25.0 𝑔 𝑁𝐻4 𝐶𝑙

1𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝑁𝐻4 𝐶𝑙
𝑛 = 25.0 𝑔 𝑁𝐻4 𝐶𝑙 ×
180.17 𝑔 𝑁𝐻4 𝐶𝑙

𝑛 = 0.467 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝑁𝐻4 𝐶𝑙

3. Calculate the mass in grams of 5.75 mol of

nitrogen atoms.
m = 5.75 mol N

n = 5.75 mol N x 14.01 g N

1 mol N
n = 80.6 g N

4. Calculate the mass in grams of 5.75 mol of

nitrogen molecules.
m = 5.75 mol N2

n = 5.75 mol N2 x 28.02 g N2

1 mol N2

n = 161 g N2
5. Calculate the percent composition of
ammonium found in ammonium carbonate?
m% = 36.10 g / 96.11 g x 100%= 37.56%

6. Magnesium hydroxide is 54.87% oxygen by mass.

Determine the mass of oxygen in 165 g of this
compound.

m% = 54.87% O
m = 165 g × 0.5487 = 90.54 g O

7. Magnesium hydroxide is 54.87% oxygen by

mass. Determine the number of moles of oxygen.

nO = 90.54 g O × 1mol O
16.00 g O

nO = 5.659 mol O

8. How many grams of phosphorus are

contained in 0.853 g of magnesium phosphate?

m = 0.853 g Mg3(PO4)2
m = 0.853 g Mg3(PO4)2 x 1 mol Mg (PO )
3 42
262.84 g Mg (PO )
3 42
2 mol P 30.97 g P
x
1 mol Mg (PO ) 1 mol P
3 42

=0.201 g P

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