The Following Data Were Obtained in a Kinetics Study of the Hypothetical

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Multiple Choice

The following data were obtained in a kinetics study of the hypothetical reaction A + B + C $\to$ products.

Using the initial-rate method,what is the order of the reaction with respect to B?

• A) zero-order
• B) first-order
• C) second-order
• D) third-order
• E) impossible to tell from the data given

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