You Are Taking a Multiple-Choice Test That Has 9 Questions

question 229

Multiple Choice

You are taking a multiple-choice test that has 9 questions. Each of the questions has 5 choices, with one correctchoice per question. If you select one of these options per question and leave nothing blank, in how manyways can you answer the questions?

• A) 1,953,125
• B) 45
• C) 59,049
• D) 14

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Definitions:

Organic Halide

Organic compounds containing a halogen atom (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine) covalently bonded to carbon; utilized in various chemical syntheses and reactions.

Carboxylation

A chemical reaction that introduces a carboxyl group (-COOH) into a molecule.

Grignard Reagent

An organomagnesium compound used in organic chemistry for carbon-carbon bond formation, represented as RMgX where R is an alkyl or aryl group and X is a halogen.

Organic Halide

An organic compound containing one or more halogen atoms (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine) covalently bonded to carbon.