Exercises

Part A : MCQ
1 Which of the following is a redox reaction?

A Cl2(g) + 2 NaBr(aq)  2 NaCl(aq) + Br2(l)

B NH3(aq) + CH3COOH(aq)  CH3COONH4(aq)
C Ba(NO3)2(aq) + K2SO4(aq)  BaSO4(s) + 2 KNO3(aq)
D HCl(aq) + NaHCO3(aq)  NaCl(aq) + H2O(l) + CO2(g)
A

2 Which of the following is an insoluble salt?

A NaBr B Cr2(SO4)3
C KNO3 D AgBr D

3 Dinitrogen pentoxide decomposes to produce oxygen as shown below

2 N2O5(l)  4 NO2(g) + O2(g)
In an experiment, 125.0 g of dinitrogen pentoxide decomposed to produce
95.6 g of nitrogen dioxide gas. What is the percent yield of this gas?

A 19.6 % B 33.8 %
C 66.2 % D 78.2 % B

4 25.0 mL of a solution of Fe2+ ions require 8.80 mL of 0.016 M acidified

potassium dichromate(VI) solution for titration. What is the concentration
(M) of Fe2+ ions?

6 Fe2+(aq) + Cr2O72(aq) + 14 H+(aq)  6 Fe3+(aq) + 2 Cr3+(aq) + 7 H2O(l)

A 1.41 x 104 B 2.41 x 10 3

3 2
C 5.63 x 10 D 3.38 x 10 D

5 What is the new concentration (M) of sodium hydroxide solution when 150.0
mL distilled water was added to 100.0 mL of the 0.250 M sodium hydroxide
solution?

A 0.1 B 0.17
C 0.38 D 0.63 A

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 Part B : Structured

1 Write the balanced molecular, ionic and net ionic equation for the reaction
between sodium sulphate and barium chloride. State the spectator ion. [4]

Ba(NO3)2(aq) + K2SO4(aq)  BaSO4(s) + KNO3(aq)

Molecular equation :

Ionic equation :

Net ionic equation :

Spectator ion :

2 A sample of impure magnesium was analysed by allowing it to react with

excess HCl solution.
Mg(s) + 2 HCl(aq)  MgCl2(aq) + H2(g)
After 2.95 g of the impure metal was treated with 0.150 L of 0.750 M HCl,
there was 0.0514 mole of HCl remained. Calculate the mass of Mg in the
impure metal. [3]

Mass of Mg in the impure metal is 0.743 g

3 The reaction between iron (III) chloride and sodium hydroxide is an example
of a precipitation reaction. In an experiment, 25.0 mL of 0.25 M iron (III)
chloride was mixed with 42.0 mL of 0.50 M sodium hydroxide.

FeCl3(aq) + 3 NaOH(aq)  3 NaCl(aq) + Fe(OH)3(s)

Determine the limiting reactant. [3]

FeCl3 is the limiting reactant.

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4 A redox reaction between dichromate ion and nitrite ion to form chromium
ion and nitrate ion occurs in acidic solution as shown in the following
equation.
Cr2O72-(aq) + NO2-(aq)  Cr3+(aq) + NO3-(aq)
[unbalanced]
The unbalanced half-reactions of the redox reaction are given below.
Reduction: Cr2O72-(aq) + 14H+(aq) + 6e- 2Cr3+(aq) + 7H2O(l)
Oxidation: NO2-(aq) + H2O(l)  NO3-(aq) + 2H+(aq) + 2e-

Determine the balanced equation for the redox reaction. [2]

Reduction :

Oxidation :

Balanced redox equation:

Cr2O72-(aq) + 8H+(aq) + 3NO2-(aq)  2Cr3+(aq) + 3NO3-(aq) + 4H2O(l)

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