imagine that representatives of a pharmaceutical company have asked you to suppl

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imagine that representatives of a pharmaceutical company have asked you to supply them with the caffeine you obtain using this extraction method. the first order is for 25 grams of caffeine. assuming your yield to be the same for each extraction, what mass of tea you need in order to fulfill the request?

Carolina ChemKitsu: Caffeine Extraction from Tea Student Guid Data Table 1 Initial mass of tea bags Mass of empty tea bags: Mass of tea used for extraction: 15.53 9 4. 63 9 4-3 9 Table 2 Mass of empty flask: Mass of flask containing caffeine: Mass of caffeine extracted: By.sb g

Explanation / Answer

For 14.63 g of tea we get 0.56 g of caffeine

So to get 25 grams of caffeine we require (25/0.56) * 14.63

=653.12 grams of tea = 0.653 kg of tea

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