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Department of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering

ECHEM001 – Chemistry for Engineers
Problem Set - Midterm
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16. The density of ethylene glycol (antifreeze, HOCH2CH2OH)
is 1.09 g/mL. How many grams of ethylene glycol should be
mixed with 375 mL of water to make a 7.50% (v/v) mixture?
17. Determine the volume percent of toluene in a solution made
by mixing 40.0 mL toluene with 75.0 mL of benzene.
18. What is the volume percent of 10.00 g of acetone (d = 0.789
g/mL) in 1.55 L of an acetone-water solution?
19. Convert 0.0035% NaCl by mass into parts per million of
NaCl.
20. Calculate the normality of 0.321 g sodium carbonate when
it is mixed in a 250 mL solution.
No. Answer Unit
1

1. What is the molarity of the solution when 145 g NaCl is 2

dissolved in water to make 2.75 L of solution?
2. To produce 4.00 L of a 250. mM solution of sodium 3
hydroxide (NaOH), how many grams of NaOH must be
dissolved? 4
3. If 8.77 g of potassium iodide (KI) are dissolved in sufficient
water to make 4.75 L of solution, what is the molarity of the 5
solution?
4. What is the concentration in mM of 4.80 g of citric acid 6
(C6H8O7) dissolved in water to make 1.00 L? (The molar
mass of citric acid is 192 g/mole)
7
5. The concentration of sugar in a soft drink is measured to be
10.5%. How many grams of sugar are in 125 g of the drink?
8
6. The label on an Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry drink lists 30
g of sugar in 240 mL of drink. I weighed 240 mL of drink and
found its mass to be 251 g. What is the percent composition 9
of sugar in the drink?
7. A drinking water plant adds 500 grams of fluoride to a water 10
tank containing 500,000 liters of drinking water. What is the
concentration of fluoride in the water in parts-per-million 11
(ppm)?
8. A bottle of rubbing alcohol contains 75% by mass 2- 12
propanol (C3H8O) in water. What are the mole fractions of
2-propanol and water in the solutions? 13
9. What is the molality of the solution when 328 g NaCl is
dissolved in 3.50 kg water? 14
10. Calculate the normality of a solution that contains 4.5 g of
(COOH)2 in 3000 mL of solution? 15
11. How many grams of ethylene glycol (C2H6O2) are needed
to mix with 5.00 kg of water to prepare a 3.50 m solution? 16
12. How many ml of water are needed to dilute
65ml 7M KCl to 2M? 17
13. 100.0 g of saltwater is weighed out and all of the water
evaporated. The remaining salt is found to have a mass of 18
23.8 g. What was the molality of the original solution?
14. 6.80 g of sodium chloride are added to 2750 mL of water. 19
Find the mole fraction of the sodium chloride and of the
water in the solution. 20
15. How many grams of magnesium cyanide would you need
to add to 275 mL of water to make a 0.075 molal solution?

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