A student uses a solution of potassium hydroxide to titrate a solution of nitric acid. Which question is the student trying to answer?

A. What is the concentration of nitric acid?
B. What is the concentration of potassium hydroxide?
C. How much nitric acid solution is present?
D. how many moles of potassium hydroxide are present?

1 answer

The student is trying to answer the question:

A. What is the concentration of nitric acid?

In a titration, the goal is typically to determine the concentration of one solution (in this case, nitric acid) by reacting it with a solution of known concentration (potassium hydroxide).