The lowering of vapor pressure of a solvent by a nonvolatile solute is given by Raoult's law:
ΔP=xsolute⋅P0 where ΔP is the change in vapor pressure, xsolute is the mole fraction of the solute, and P0 is the vapor pressure of the pure solvent.
Rearranging the formula for xsolute, we have:
xsolute=P0ΔP Substituting the given values, we get :
xsolute=54.2mm Hg0.20mm Hg=0.003689 Since the mole fraction of the solute is also equal to the number of moles of solute divided by the total number of moles, we can express xsolute as:
xsolute=molessolute+moleswatermolessolute Assuming that the solution is dilute, the number of moles of water will be much larger than the number of moles of solute, so we can approximate the total number of moles as the number of moles of water.
Thus, we have :
xsolute≈moleswatermolessolute Therefore, the number of moles of solute is :
molessolute=xsolute⋅moleswater The number of moles of water is the mass of the water divided by the molar mass of water (18 g/mol) :
moleswater=18g/mol100g=5.56mol So, the number of moles of solute is :
molessolute=0.003689⋅5.56mol=0.0205mol Finally, to find the mass of the glucose, we multiply the number of moles of glucose by the molar mass of glucose :
massglucose=molessolute⋅molar massglucose massglucose=0.0205mol⋅180g/mol=3.69g So, the correct answer is 3.69 g.