The students in Mrs. Smith's class used pH paper to measure the acidity levels between different samples of breakfast drinks. The pH measurements ranged from 3.27 to 3.88 on the pH scale. Based on this range, we can determine that the most acidic solution had a pH of:

The most acidic solution had a pH of 3.27.

Explanation:

In order to solve this problem we need to keep in mind that the lower the pH of a solution is, the more acidic the solution is.

If among the pH readings across the measured breakfast drinks, the lowest one was 3.27 (as the problem tells us with the range), then that drink was the most acidic one.

Conversely, the least acidic one had a pH of 3.88.

alkaline metals are lithium, sodium, rubidium, potassium, cesium and francium.

alkali metals have electronegativity from 0.7 to 1, lowest in periodic table of elements, which means that alkali metals (i group in periodic table) has positive oxidation number in compounds.

electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards itself.

alkaline metals (far left in main group) have lowest ionizations energy and easy remove valence electrons,

for example, potassium is the alkali metal and has a single valence electron in the outer electron shell.

electron configuration of potassium is: ₁₉k 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s¹.

they can not exist alone in nature, because they are very reactive.