[omgwtfitsp]

acetic acid + potassium hydroxide -> ?

CH3COOH(aq) + KOH(aq) -> KCH3COO + H2O

or

CH3COOH(aq) + KOH(aq) -> CH3COOK + H2O

I looked around for this answer and I found two different answers. Which is the correct one?

Edit: It seems to me the first one is correct because K+ go before CH3COO-. I may be wrong however.

[Borek]

Both answers are acceptable. Acetic acid can be written as CH₃COOH, CH₃CO₂H, or even C₂H₄O₂. First two formulae are sometimes called semistructural, as they try to show how the molecule really looks like, as opposed to the third one. Potassium acetate can be written as CH₃COOK or CH₃CO₂K, to underline fact that potassium displaces hydrogen from carboxylic group. But sometimes it is written first, as that's the way we write formulae of inorganic salts (starting with the metal).