Question

According to your calculations, an experiment in lab should have produced 61.6 grams of product. If you actually produced 53.16 grams, what is your percent yield? Option 1: 86.29% Option 2: 90.65% Option 3: 70.76% Option 4: 77.78%

Answer 1

Percent yield = 86.29% (Option 1)

Explanation:

To find the percent yield, we multiply the quotient of the actual and theoretical yields in grams by 100:

% yield = (actual yield / theoretical yield) * 100

Since you should have produced 61.6 g of product, it's our theoretical yield

Since you actually produced 53.16 g, it's your actual yield

Now we can find the % yield:

% yield = (53.16 / 61.6) * 100

% yield = 86.2987013

% yield = 86.29

Thus, the percent yield is about 86.29%.