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Practice Problems For Expressing Concentrations

This document provides a practice exercise on expressing concentrations for a medical laboratory science clinical chemistry course. It contains 15 math problems involving calculating concentrations in various units including percent by volume, percent by weight, molarity, normality, moles, and equivalents. Students are instructed to show their work, round to two decimal places, and avoid erasures. Their work will be graded based on obtaining the correct solution and final answer.

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Practice Problems For Expressing Concentrations

This document provides a practice exercise on expressing concentrations for a medical laboratory science clinical chemistry course. It contains 15 math problems involving calculating concentrations in various units including percent by volume, percent by weight, molarity, normality, moles, and equivalents. Students are instructed to show their work, round to two decimal places, and avoid erasures. Their work will be graded based on obtaining the correct solution and final answer.

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MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE PROGRAM

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 1

Name__________________________________ Points Earned: _____________________


Section ________________________________ Date: _____________________________

PRACTICE EXERCISE
LABORATORY MATHEMATICS: EXPRESSING CONCENTRATIONS

General Instructions:
1. Avoid erasures.
2. Box the final answers.
3. Abbreviations are allowed.
4. All final answers must be rounded-off to the nearest two decimal places.
5. Always use the long method in calculating the following mathematical problems.

Grading rubrics:
Correct solution: 3pts
Correct answer: 2pts

Compute the following:

1. How would you make 2,000 mL of 40% v/v HCl?

2. How many grams of sodium chloride are contained in 300 mL of an 8% solution?

3. How many milliliters of glacial acetic acid are contained in 150 mL of a 40% solution of acetic acid?

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4. How many grams of salt are present in 500 mL of physiologic saline?

5. State how you would prepare the following:


a. 400 mL of 6% w/v NaCl
b. 30 mL of 20% v/v HCl
c. 3 L of 40% w/v sulfuric acid

6. What is the percent concentration of the solution made from 55 g calcium chloride in 120 mL solution?

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7. What is the percent concentration of the solution made from 1g of copper(II) sulfate in 25 mL solution?

8. What weight of NaOH would be required to prepare 3,000 mL of a 2.5M solution?

9. In a solution of NaCl containing 400 mmol in 150 mL, what is the molarity?

10. How many nanograms of NaCl would 800 mL of a 1x10-9 M solution contain?

11. If you had 6mol in 600 mL of solution, what would be the molarity?

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12. What is the normality of an NaOH solution containing 200g of NaOH per liter?

13. Make 6N NaCl.

14. How many equivalents are in 18.6 mL 0.856 N sulfuric acid?

15. How many moles of solute are in 65.0 mL 2.20M sodium hydroxide?

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