A Chemical Reaction Is Most Likely to Be Spontaneous If

question 26

Multiple Choice

A chemical reaction is most likely to be spontaneous if it is accompanied by

• A)increasing energy and increasing entropy
• B)lowering energy and increasing entropy
• C)increasing energy and decreasing entropy
• D)lowering energy and decreasing entropy
• E)none of these (A-D)

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Definitions:

Occurrences

Events or instances of something happening or being present.

Interval

A range of values in statistics that describes the difference between two points, often used in the classification of scales of measurement.

Random Variable

A variable whose values depend on outcomes of a random phenomenon, with each outcome associated with a different value or set of values.