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Skills Worksheet

Sample Problem Set

Mole Concept
Suppose you want to carry out a reaction that requires combining one atom of iron
with one atom of sulfur. How much iron should you use? How much sulfur?
When you look around the lab, there is no device that can count numbers of
atoms. Besides, the merest speck (0.001 g) of iron contains over a billion billion
atoms. The same is true of sulfur.
Fortunately, you do have a way to relate mass and numbers of atoms. One iron
atom has a mass of 55.847 amu, and 55.847 g of iron contains 6.022 137  1023
atoms of iron. Likewise, 32.066 g of sulfur contains 6.022 137  1023 atoms of
sulfur. Knowing this, you can measure out 55.847 g of iron and 32.066 g of sulfur
and be pretty certain that you have the same number of atoms of each.
The number 6.022 137  1023 is called Avogadro’s number. For most purposes
it is rounded off to 6.022  1023. Because this is an awkward number to write over
and over again, chemists refer to it as a mole (abbreviated mol). 6.022  1023
objects is called a mole, just as you call 12 objects a dozen.
Look again at how these quantities are related.
55.847 g of iron = 6.022  1023 iron atoms = 1 mol of iron
32.066 g of sulfur = 6.022  1023 sulfur atoms = 1 mol of sulfur
General Plan for Converting Mass, Amount,
and Number of Particles

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Problems Involving Atoms and Elements

SAMPLE PROBLEM 1
A chemist has a jar containing 388.2 g of iron filings. How many moles of
iron does the jar contain?

Solution
ANALYZE
What is given in the problem? mass of iron in grams
What are you asked to find? amount of iron in moles

Items Data
Mass of iron 388.2 g
Molar mass of iron* 55.85 g/mol
Amount of iron ? mol
*determined from the periodic table

PLAN
What step is needed to convert from grams of Fe to number of moles of Fe?
The molar mass of iron can be used to convert mass of iron to amount of iron in
moles.

COMPUTE

1 mol Fe
388.2 g Fe   6.951 mol Fe
55.85 g Fe

EVALUATE
Are the units correct?
Yes; the answer has the correct units of moles of Fe.

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Is the number of significant figures correct?

Yes; the number of significant figures is correct because there are four significant
figures in the given value of 388.2 g Fe.
Is the answer reasonable?
Yes; 388.2 g Fe is about seven times the molar mass. Therefore, the sample contains
about 7 mol.

Practice
1. Calculate the number of moles in each of the following masses:
a. 64.1 g of aluminum ans: 2.38 mol Al

b. 28.1 g of silicon ans: 1.00 mol Si

c. 0.255 g of sulfur ans: 7.95  103 mol S

d. 850.5 g of zinc ans: 13.01 mol Zn

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Sample Problem 2
A student needs 0.366 mol of zinc for a reaction. What mass of zinc in grams
should the student obtain?

Solution
ANALYZE
What is given in the problem? amount of zinc needed in moles
What are you asked to find? mass of zinc in grams

Items Data
Amount of zinc 0.366 mol
Molar mass of zinc 65.39 g/mol
Mass of zinc ?g

PLAN
What step is needed to convert from moles of Zn to grams of Zn?
The molar mass of zinc can be used to convert amount of zinc to mass of zinc.
2 1
Amount of Zn in mol     Mass of Zn in mol
multiply by the
molar mass of Zn
molar mass Zn
given
65.39 g Zn
mol Zn  g Zn
1 mol Zn

COMPUTE
65.39 g Zn
0.366 mol Zn   23.9 g Zn
1 mol Zn

EVALUATE
Are the units correct?
Yes; the answer has the correct units of grams of Zn.
Is the number of significant figures correct?
Yes; the number of significant figures is correct because there are three significant
figures in the given value of 0.366 mol Zn.
Is the answer reasonable?
Yes; 0.366 mol is about 1/3 mol. 23.9 g is about 1/3 the molar mass of Zn.

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Practice
1. Calculate the mass of each of the following amounts:
a. 1.22 mol sodium ans: 28.0 g Na

b. 14.5 mol copper ans: 921 g Cu

c. 0.275 mol mercury ans: 55.2 g Hg

d. 9.37  1023 mol magnesium ans: 2.28 x 10-21 Mg

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Sample Problem 3
How many moles of lithium are there in 1.204  1024 lithium atoms?

Solution
ANALYZE
What is given in the problem? number of lithium atoms
What are you asked to find? amount of lithium in moles

Items Data
Number of lithium atoms 1.204  1024 atoms
Avogadro’s number—the
6.022  1023 atoms/mol
number of atoms per mole
Amount of lithium ? mol

PLAN
What step is needed to convert from number of atoms of Li to moles of Li?
Avogadro’s number is the number of atoms per mole of lithium and can be used to
calculate the number of moles from the number of atoms.
3 2
Number of Li atoms      Amount of Li in mol
multiply by the inverse of
Avogadro' s number
1
Avogadro' s number
given
1 mol Li
atoms Li   mol Li
6.022  10 23 atoms Li

COMPUTE

1 mol Li
1.204  10 24 atoms Li   1.999 , mol Li
6.022  10 23 atoms Li

EVALUATE
Are the units correct?
Yes; the answer has the correct units of moles of Li.
Is the number of significant figures correct?
Yes; four significant figures is correct.
Is the answer reasonable?
Yes; 1.204  1024 is approximately twice Avogadro’s number. Therefore, it is
reasonable that this number of atoms would equal about 2 mol.

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Practice
1. Calculate the amount in moles in each of the following quantities:
a. 3.01  1023 atoms of rubidium ans: 0.500 mol Rb

b. 8.08  1022 atoms of krypton ans: 0.134 mol Kr

c. 5 700 000 000 atoms of lead ans: 9.5  1015 mol Pb

d. 2.997  1025 atoms of vanadium ans: 49.77 mol V

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CONVERTING THE AMOUNT OF AN ELEMENT IN MOLES TO THE NUMBER

OF ATOMS
In Sample Problem 3, you were asked to determine the number of moles in
1.204  1024 atoms of lithium. Had you been given the amount in moles and asked
to calculate the number of atoms, you would have simply multiplied by
Avogadro’s number. Steps 2 and 3 of the plan for solving Sample Problem 3
would have been reversed.

Practice
1. Calculate the number of atoms in each of the following amounts:
a. 1.004 mol bismuth ans: 6.046  1023 atoms Bi

b. 2.5 mol manganese ans: 1.5  1024 atoms Mg

c. 0.000 000 2 mol helium ans: 1  1017 atoms He

d. 32.6 mol strontium ans: 1.96  1025 atoms Sr

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Sample Problem 4
How many boron atoms are there in 2.00 g of boron?

Solution
ANALYZE
What is given in the problem? mass of boron in grams
What are you asked to find? number of boron atoms

Items Data
Mass of boron 2.00 g
Molar mass of boron 10.81 g/mol
Avogadro’s number—the 6.022  1023 atoms/mol
number of boron atoms per mole
of boron
Number of boron atoms ? atoms

PLAN
What steps are needed to convert from grams of B to number of atoms of B?
First, you must convert the mass of boron to moles of boron by using the molar
mass of boron. Then you can use Avogadro’s number to convert amount in moles to
number of atoms of boron.

COMPUTE
1 mol B 6.022  10 23 atoms B
2.00 g B    1.11  10 23 atoms B
10.81 g B 1 mol B

EVALUATE
Are the units correct?
Yes; the answer has the correct units of atoms of boron.
Is the number of significant figures correct?
Yes; the mass of boron was given to three significant figures.
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Is the answer reasonable?

Yes; 2 g of boron is about 1/5 of the molar mass of boron. Therefore, 2.00 g boron
will contain about 1/5 of an Avogadro’s constant of atoms.

Practice
1. Calculate the number of atoms in each of the following masses:
a. 54.0 g of aluminum ans: 1.21  1024 atoms Al

b. 69.45 g of lanthanum ans: 3.011  1023 atoms La

c. 0.697 g of gallium ans: 6.02  1021 atoms Ga

d. 0.000 000 020 g beryllium ans: 1.3  1015 atoms Be

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CONVERTING NUMBER OF ATOMS OF AN ELEMENT TO MASS

Sample Problem 4 uses the progression of steps 1  2  3 to convert from the
mass of an element to the number of atoms. In order to calculate the mass from a
given number of atoms, these steps will be reversed. The number of moles in the
sample will be calculated. Then this value will be converted to the mass in grams.

Practice
1. Calculate the mass of the following numbers of atoms:
a. 6.022  1024 atoms of tantalum ans: 1810. g Ta

b. 3.01  1021 atoms of cobalt ans: 0.295 g Co

c. 1.506  1024 atoms of argon ans: 99.91 g Ar

d. 1.20  1025 atoms of helium ans: 79.7 g He

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