Question

When making lemonade, you add 1 cup of sugar and 3 cups of lemon juice to half a gallon of water. What is the lemon juice in this mixture? a Electrolyte b Nonelectrolyte c Solute d Solvent

Answer 1

In the mixture of lemonade, the lemon juice acts as a **solute**. A solute is a substance that is dissolved in a solvent (in this case, half a gallon of water, which is the solvent) to form a solution. Therefore, the correct answer is **c Solute**.