Why Is the Boiling Point of Ethanol Greater Than the Boiling

question 16

Multiple Choice

Why is the boiling point of ethanol greater than the boiling point of ethane?

• A) because ethanol is nonpolar, whereas ethane is polar
• B) because unlike ethane, ethanol contains nonpolar covalent bonds
• C) because unlike ethane, ethanol contains hydrogen bonds
• D) because ethanol is aromatic, whereas ethane is aliphatic

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Definitions:

Parametric Statistics

Statistical methods that assume the data follows a particular distribution, often used for hypothesis testing.

Categorical Variables

Categorical variables are types of variables in statistics that represent categories, possessing qualitative properties that differentiate one group from another.

One-sample Chi-square

A statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant difference between the observed frequencies and the expected frequencies in one categorical dataset.

Two-sample Chi-square

The Two-sample Chi-square test is a statistical method used to determine if there is a significant difference between the distributions of two categorical variables.