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A student uses a solution of potassium hydroxide to titrate a solution of nitric acid. Which question is the student trying to answer?(1 point)
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What is the concentration of nitric acid?
What is the concentration of nitric acid?

How many moles of potassium hydroxide are present?
How many moles of potassium hydroxide are present?

How much nitric acid solution is present?
How much nitric acid solution is present?

What is the concentration of potassium hydroxide?
What is the concentration of potassium hydroxide?
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Answer 1

The student is trying to answer the question:

What is the concentration of nitric acid?

In a titration, one solution (in this case, potassium hydroxide) is used to determine the concentration of another solution (in this case, nitric acid) by reacting them in a known stoichiometric relationship.