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Lesson 10 · Working back from yield
The promise, recovered
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The promise, recovered

The yield formula runs backwards as happily as forwards. Know the promise and the yield? The delivery is ma=Y⋅mt100m_a = \dfrac{Y \cdot m_t}{100} — the promise, taxed down to its fraction. Know the delivery and the yield? The promise was mt=100⋅maYm_t = \dfrac{100 \cdot m_a}{Y} — undo the tax and the paper's full number returns. In both, the ÷100 or ×100 is doing one honest job: turning a percent into a fraction, or a fraction back into a percent.

And carry this sanity rail into every answer: the theoretical yield is a CEILING, so mtm_t must always come out at least as big as mam_a. If your recovered promise lands below what the flask delivered, a rearrangement upstream is lying to you — no appeal, go back a line.

mtheoreticalmactual% yield

% yield=mactualmtheoretical×100%\%\,\text{yield} = \frac{m_{\text{actual}}}{m_{\text{theoretical}}} \times 100\%

  • % yield\%\,\text{yield}= Percent yield (concentration)
  • mactualm_{\text{actual}}= Actual yield (mass obtained) (mass)
  • mtheoreticalm_{\text{theoretical}}= Theoretical yield (mass predicted) (mass)
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