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Introduction:

For every reaction an input of energy to activate the reaction, this is called activation energy. Activation
energy is the amount of energy required to move the reactants from ground state to the transition
state. The temperature dependence of a activation energy in a chemical reaction is given by the
equation called Arrhenius Equation.

-Ea
k=Ae RT

where,

k is the rate constant

A is the frequency factor of the reaction

R is the universal gas constant

T is the temperature in Kelvin

Explanation:

The activation energy of a reaction is related to the rate of a reaction. Higher the activation energy
slower will be rate of a reaction. Rate of reaction is faster when the activation energy is smaller because
large number of molecules will possess energy higher than activation energy.

When we raise the temperature of the system the kinetic energy of the molecule increases. As
temperature increases molecules gain energy and their speed movement increases. Hence, more
fractions of molecules that have high enough kinetic energy get over the activation energy barrier.
Reactions become faster at high temperature because as temperature increase, the number of collisions
with required activation energy also increases.

Hence, we can conclude that statement “a” is correct.