You have two beakers, one filled to the 100-mL mark with sugar (the sugar has a mass of 180.0 g) and the other filled to the 100-mL mark with water (the water has a mass of 100.0 g). You pour all the sugar and all the water together in a bigger beaker until the sugar is completely dissolved. What is true about the volume of the solution?

It will be less than 200 mL.

much less

it would be exactly 200.0 mL

It is exactly 280

To determine the volume of the solution, we need to consider the fact that when the sugar dissolves in water, it increases the volume of the solution.

When the sugar is added to water, it dissolves, forming a homogeneous mixture called a solution. The sugar molecules disperse evenly throughout the water, occupying space between the water molecules, and thereby increasing the volume of the solution.

In this scenario, both the sugar and water are initially in 100-mL beakers, resulting in a total volume of 100 mL + 100 mL = 200 mL. However, after mixing the sugar and water together, the volume of the resulting solution will not remain at 200 mL due to the increase caused by the dissolved sugar.

Therefore, the volume of the solution will be greater than 200 mL. However, to precisely determine the actual volume of the solution, we need information about the density or concentration of the resulting sugar-water solution.