If the theoretical yield of a reaction is .145 g and the actual yield is 0.104 g, what is the percent yield?
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Explanation:
A reaction's percent yield essentially tells you many grams of a given product will actually be produced instead of a theoretical
Simply put, you can calculate a reaction's percent yield by dividing the actual yield, which is what the reaction actually produces, by the theoretical yield, which is what the reaction should theoretically produce, and multiplying the result by
#color(blue)(|bar(ul(color(blue)("% yield" = "what you actually get"/"what you should theoretically get" xx 100color(white)(a/a)|)))#
In your case, the reaction is said to have a theoretical yield of
The actual yield of the reaction is said to
The percent yield of the reaction will be
#"% yield" = (0.104 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))))/(0.145color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g")))) xx 100 = color(green)(|bar(ul(color(white)(a/a)"71.7%color(white)(a/a)|))) -># rounded to three sig figs
This means that for every