Practice work: BASIC STOICHIOMETRY

You must show work to receive full credit for these problems! ALWAYS check if the equation is
balanced!

Use the following reaction for questions 1-3.

Mg + 2HCl → MgCl2 + H2
1. Write the mole ratio between magnesium and hydrogen from the chemical equation above.

2. How many moles of Mg are needed to react with 6 moles of HCl?

3. How many moles of hydrochloric acid are needed to produce 3.5 moles of hydrogen?

Use the following reaction for questions 4-7.

___C3H8 + ___O2 → ___CO2 + ___H2O

4. Balance the chemical equation above.

5. How many moles of C3H8 are needed to produce 16.0 moles of water?

6. Determine the number of moles of oxygen gas needed to react completely with 2.5 moles of C3H8.

7. How many moles of carbon dioxide gas will be produced from 0.8 moles of oxygen?
Use the following reaction for questions 8-12.

Aluminum reacts with copper (II) sulfate to yield aluminum sulfate and copper.

8. Write and balance the equation for the reaction that is described above.

9. What type of reaction is represented by the above equation?

10. If 4.96 moles of copper (II) sulfate are used in the reaction above, how many moles of copper are
produced?

11. Determine how many moles of copper (II) sulfate must be used to react completely with 5.5 moles of
aluminum metal.

12. How many moles of aluminum sulfate are produced if 6.00 moles of copper metal is also produced?