Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Biology
15 Aug 2008
3. If a sample of propane, C3H8, contains a total of 6.0 x 103 atoms of carbon, how
many molecules of propane are in the sample?
(a) 6.0 x 103 (b) 3.0 x 103 (c) 8.0 x 103 (d) 1.1 x 104 (e) 2.0 x 103
4. Each response below lists an ion by name and by chemical symbol or formula.
Also each ion is classified as monatomic or polyatomic and as a cation or anion.
Which response contains an error?
(a) MgO (b) MnO (c) MnO4 (d) Mg2O3 (e) Mn2O3
(a) 193 amu (b) 119 amu (c) 142 amu (d) 215 amu (e) 185 amu
1
7. What is the mass of 0.432 moles of C8H9O4?
(a) 86.9 g (b) 391 g (c) 169 g (d) 113.8 g (e) 73.0 g
(a) 9.38% (b) 18.8% (c) 24.6% (d) 28.1% (e) 35.4%
10. What is the coefficient for carbon dioxide when the following equation showing
the combustion of isopropyl alcohol is balanced with the smallest whole number
coefficients?
C3H8O + O2 → CO2 + H2O
2
12. How many valence electrons does a phosphorus atom have?
13. What is the formula for the binary compound of calcium and bromine?
(a) CaBr (b) Ca2Br (c) CaB (d) CaB2 (e) CaBr2
14. How many unshared pairs of electrons are in the outer shell of the central
nitrogen atom of NH3?
15. Draw the dot formula for ethylene, C2H4. Each carbon-hydrogen bond is a
_______ bond and each carbon-carbon bond is a ______ bond.
16. Which of the responses lists only the molecules below that have polar covalent
bonds?
17. Which one of the following molecules has only 120° bond angles?
(a) PF3 (b) SF6 (c) BI3 (d) PF5 (e) NF3
3
18. The molecular geometry of PCl3 is ______.