Mass of a 1 cm Mg strip= 0.12 g(All of the strips are in 1.0 M HCl solution)
Temperature in °C: 0/23/50/90
Time (s): 300/35/15/5
Reaction Rate (g/s): 4.0x10*-4/3.4x10*-3/8.0x10*-3/2.4x10*-2
The question was "Use your graph to predict the reaction rate and then calculate the reaction time for a 1 cm magnesium strip in 1.0 M HCl solution, at a temperature of 75°C."
I made a graph on the spreadsheet but Excel didn't provide the formula with this graph. (I don't know how to attach a graph here sorry.)
I used the y=mx + b too but it didn't make sense.
So I was using the basic math skills like...
When the temperature changed from 50 to 90,
10 seconds were decreased( from 15 to 5 ), which means 1.25 seconds were decreased every 5 degrees.
So when the temperature is 75 °C (=50°C+(5°C x 5)), the predicted reaction time is 8.75 seconds(=15 seconds-(1.25 seconds x 5)).
But I don't think this is expected on a high school Chemistry lab report.
I graduated high school over a decade ago. So can someone please help me with how to solve this problem?