GCSE Chemistry for You, Fifth Edition

Answers to End-of-chapter questions for Chapter 4, Chemical

calculations

It is very important that you are able to answer the questions on your own, using your
own knowledge of Chemistry.
Have a go at the questions first, and then check your answers using this page.
If you get a question wrong, try to work out where you have made an error.

1. CuO
2. 510 tonnes
3. 0.416 g
4. 4.58 g

The alternative ‘Problem page’ (on page 69)

1. CH4
2. 112 tonnes
3
3. 0.040 mol/dm (to 2 s.f.)
3 3
4. 1.2 dm or 1200 cm

Answers to other calculations in Chapter 4

Pages 48 and 49
1. 2 mol 2. 3.0 mol 3. 10 mol 4. 0.10 mol 5. 0.010 mol
6. 2 g 7. 70 g 8. 320 g 9. 9.5 g 10. 0.12 g
11. 2.0 mol 12. 10 mol 13. 0.10 mol 14. 0.01 mol 15. 0.20 mol

Pages 50 and 51
1. 1.0 mol 2. 0.25 mol 3. 0.10 mol 4. 0.0050 mol 5. 0.0020 mol
6. 72 dm3 (72 000 cm3)

7. 120 dm3 (120 000 cm3)

8. 2.4 dm3 (2400 cm3)

9. 0.024 dm3 (24 cm3)

10. 0.12 dm3 (120 cm3)

11. 48 dm3 (48 000 cm3)

12. 12 dm3 (12 000 cm3)

13. 1.20 dm3 (1200 cm3)

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14. 0.012 dm3 (12 cm3)

15. 4.8 dm3 (4800 cm3)

Page 53
1. 2 mol 2. 1 mol 3. 0.25 mol 4. 0.05 mol 5. 0.025 mol
6. 29.25 g 7. 11.2 g 8. 2.45 g 9. 12.41 g 10. 0.429 g

Page 54
1. CH4 2. PbO 3. CO2 4. Fe2O3 5. CuCO3

Page 56 and 57
1. Na = 39.3 %, Cl = 60.7 %
2. C = 42.9 %, O = 57.1 %
3. Al = 52.9 %, O = 47.1 %
4. C = 7.8 %, Cl = 92.2 %
5. Mg = 16.2 %, N = 18.9 %, O = 64.9 %
6. PH3 7. CH4 8. LiNO2

Page 59
1. Mg + 2 HCl  MgCl2 + H2
Answer = 19 g
2. Na2CO3 + H2SO4  Na2SO4 + CO2 + H2O
Answer = 7.1 g

Page 60
1. 400 cm3 (0.4 dm3)

2. 150 dm3 (150 000 cm3) of CO2 and 300 dm3 (300 000 cm3) of H2O(g)

3. 360 dm3 (360 000 cm3) of CO2 and 360 dm3 (360 000 cm3) of H2O(g)

4. 200 dm3 (200 000 cm3) of CO2 and 300 dm3 (300 000 cm3) of H2O(g)

Page 67
1. 1.25 mol / dm3 potassium hydroxide solution

2. Take 10 cm3 of the 1.0 mol/dm3 solution and add 90 cm3 of water to make up

100 cm3 of the 0.1 mol/dm3 solution, i.e. we dilute the solution by a factor of 10.

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