Composition of Compounds Worksheet.

Round all percent answers to one decimal place

1. What is the percent composition of Octane? (C8H18)

2. What is the percent composition of caffeine? (C8H10N4O2)

3. What is the percent composition of bleach? (NaClO)

4. What is the percent composition of C10H21?

5. What is the percent composition of C3CI4Pb7U14?

6. A compound is 50.0% Carbon, 25.0% Hydrogen, and 25.0% Oxygen. What is the

empirical formula of this compound?

7. A compound is 27.7% Oxygen, 22.3% Sodium, 30.0% Lithium, and 20.0% Nitrogen. What

is the empirical formula of this compound?

8. The empirical formula of a compound is C4H9. The molar mass of the molecular formula

is 114.23 g/mol. What is the molecular formula?

9. A compound has the empirical formula of CO3 and the molecular mass of its molecular

formula is 120.02 g/mol. What is the molecular formula?

10. What is the percent composition of N2O? Next, using your percent composition values,

determine the empirical formula of nitrous oxide. Then, using your empirical formula,

determine the molecular formula if the molar mass is 44.02 g/mol

11. What is the percent composition of Ethanol (C2H6O)? Next, using your percent

composition values, determine the empirical formula of ethanol. Then, using your
empirical formula, determine the molecular formula if its molar mass is 46.08 g/mol