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A certain chemical reaction requires 4/7 units of catalyst for every unit of chemical. How many students can perform an experiment if there are \(20\frac{4}{7}\) units of catalyst available in the lab, and only one unit of the chemical is required for each student?

A 33
B 34
C 36
D 38
E 40
\(20\frac{4}{7}=144/7\)

So, Required no of students is \(\frac{144}{7}*\frac{7}{4} = 36\), Thus, Answer must be (C)
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A certain chemical reaction requires 4/7 units of catalyst for every unit of chemical. How many students can perform an experiment if there are \(20\frac{4}{7}\) units of catalyst available in the lab, and only one unit of the chemical is required for each student?

The wording here is very strange, for about five different reasons, among them - what is the relationship between the "chemical reaction" in the first sentence, and the "experiment" in the second? We aren't told.

I'm guessing the question is just trying to tell us that 4/7 units of catalyst are used for every 1 unit of chemical, and then is trying ask how many units of chemical you would use if you used 20+4/7 = 144/7 units of catalyst. Then for every 1 unit of catalyst, we use 7/4 units of chemical, and the answer is (7/4)(144/7) = 144/4 = 36.
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