Question

Maddie and her friends are making s'mores over the campfire. they have a bag of 48 marshmallows, 2 packs of graham crackers containing 16 grahams per pack, and 5 chocolate bars that can each be broken into 15 pieces. if maddie's group wants to make s'mores for all, how many can they make and what is the limiting reactant?

Answer 1

The answer would be 16 S'mores and the limiting reactant would be the grahams.

(This is assuming that S'mores would need 2 grahams, 1 marshmallow and 1 chocolate piece.)

Limiting reactant would be the reactant that runs out first.

Let's take your problem into account and see what we have:

48 marshallows

32 grahams (2 x 16 per pack)

45 chocolate pieces (5 x 15 pieces per bar)

Since need 2 of the grahams per S'more then the maximum yield of the grahams is 16 S'mores.

The maximum yield of marshmallows is 48.

The maximum yield of chocolate is 45.

Since you cannot make S'mores without the grahams, then you can only make 16 S'mores before the grahams run out.