I am ready to farm this out to someone else. I have been working with this for 2 hours. I never have issues solving chemistry problems so this has been incredibly frustrating.
A solution of hydrochloric acid can be standardized by reacting it with a known quantity of sodium carbonate. If 0.851 g of Na2CO3 required 41.36 mL of HCl solution to completely react in a titration, what is the concentration of the HCl solution?
So what I need is the molarity of the HCl. For some reason I cannot find it. First I tried finding the molarity of the sodium carbonate. Then I realized the problem didn't say the sodium carbonate was a solution, so molarity didn't make sense for that. Then I tried finding the molarity of the HCl by turning the mL into liters, and dividing 1 mole HCl by 0.04136 L because molarity is moles divided by liters. I realized two things about this. 1. No chemical equation is given so 1 mole would be an assumption. 2. If this were that easy I wouldn't need to use the mass of sodium carbonate.
When finishing the problem using the molarity of sodium carbonate, just to try it, I got 48.356 mol/liter of HCl. I guess this might not be impossible, but it is highly improbable.
Am I just missing something? Or is the question missing something? Even just a hint in the right direction would help