Question #414f4

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Sep 27, 2016

"210 g"210 g

Explanation:

Molarity is simply a measure of a solution's concentration in terms of the number of moles of solute it contains in one liter.

This means that if you take exactly "1 L"1 L of any solution and determine how many moles of solute you have in the sample, you essentially know that solution's molarity.

In this case, your solution must have a molarity of "0.290 M"0.290 M, which means that every liter of this solution will contain 0.2900.290 moles of calcium chloride, your solute.

Your solution must have a volume of "6.5 L"6.5 L, which means that it must contain

6.5 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("L solution"))) * "0.290 moles CaCl"_2/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("L solution")))) = "1.885 moles CaCl"_2

In order to convert the number of moles to grams, use the 8molar mass* of calcium chloride

1.885 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("moles CaCl"_2))) * "110.98 g"/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole CaCl"_2)))) = color(green)(bar(ul(|color(white)(a/a)color(black)("210 g")color(white)(a/a)|)))

The answer is rounded to two sig figs.