More Practice – Solubility Curves and Calculating Concentrations

Directions: Use Figure 20 (p.46) in your textbook and the examples for these problems on
pages 47-49 to answer the following questions.

1. You dissolve 10 grams of KCl in 100 grams of water at 80oC. How much KCl should be
added to this solution to create a saturated solution at this temperature?

2. What is the minimum mass (in grams) of 80oC water needed to dissolve 90 grams of KCl?
How much water must be added to create this solution from the original 100 grams H2O?

3. Calculate the percent concentration of a solution of 17.3 g of NaCl and 50.7 g of water.
(round to one decimal place)

4. What is the percent concentration of a solution with 23.33 g of sugar dissolved in 127.22 g
of H2O? What would be the new concentration if 133.45 g of H2O were added? (round to
one decimal place)
 Do you know your stuff? (Challenge Questions)

 What is the concentration of sugar in parts per million dissolved in the first part of
question 4? In the second part of question 4?
 How much MgCl2 is needed to create a 10% solution when dissolved in 150 g of
solution? How about a 37% solution?

Answer Key

1) 40 g KCl added
2) Part 1 = 180 g H2O
Part 2 = 80 g H2O
3) 25.4% NaCl solution
4) Part 1 = 15.5% solution
Part 2 = 8.2% solution

Challenge Questions

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