Utterly Confused About Weak Acids and Bases

15-8 Utterly Confused About Weak Acids and Bases 

Let s begin with a series of acid-base equilibria problems. 

This problem has many similarities to the last worked example in the Utterly Confused section in Chapter 14. 

We do not have a reaction given, therefore we must write one. The a subscript in the Ka tells use the equation must look like this  

We need to write the equilibrium constant expression for this reaction  

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