Answer to Question #122061 in General Chemistry for sonia

Question

You are making milkshakes with ingredients in the following ratios: 1 banana, 1 cup milk, 5 strawberries, 4 ice cubes................You have the following quantities of ingredients. 3 bananas, 4 cups of milk, 18 strawberries, 13 ice cubes. Which ingredient is the “limiting reagent”?

Answer 1

Bananas ingredient is the limiting reagent.

Bananas is totally consumed in this process

If we consider 3 Bananas then 3 Cup of milk ,

15 strawberries, 12 ice cubes are required for complete consumption of bananas and in this question 4 cups of milk, 18 strawberries, 13 ice cubes are present so 3 bananas are totally consumed and rest ingredients are present in excess so bananas is the limiting reagent .