Question

The baker needs 9 eggs, 6 cups of flour, 3 cups of sugar, and 3 sticks of butter to make a total of 3 cakes.. The baker only has 2 sticks of butter. That means the butter is the ___________ because the baker can only make 2 cakes!
Question 19 options:


Product


Reactant


Limiting reactant


Spontaneous reactant

Answer 1

Answer: Limiting reactant

Explanation:

The limiting reactant is a reactant will get completely consumed up in the reaction. This reactant being in low concentration will lead to the formation of limited amount of product.

In the given situation, since the butter cakes are required to be 3 sticks for making 3 cakes but only 2 cakes are available thus the butter stick is the limiting reactant.