A cough syrup contains red dye #40, with a concentration of 4.68 x 10-3 M. a.If you dilute the cough syrup by adding 175 mL of water to a 250. mL sample of the cough syrup, what will be the final concentration? How do I do this?

Explanation:

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In this case, since a dilution process is a process by which the concentration of a solution decreases due to the increase of volume by usually adding water, it is important to take into account that the moles remain unchanged:

Whereas in terms of molarity (M=n/V) can be written as:

In such a way, since the initial concentration is 4.68e-3 M and the volume of such solution is 250. mL, the final volume results from mixing 250 mL of this solution with 175 mL, that is, to a volume of 425 mL. Thus, the concentration turns out:

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