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Nicole has 2 glasses on the counter: one of water and one of sugar-water. She is baking a cake and needs to use the sugar-water for the glaze. Both glasses look identical, but one contains a mixture and the other contains a compound.

Is sugar-water a mixture or a compound? Define mixtures and compounds, and explain how, without tasting it, Nicole can test to make sure she is using the sugar-water in the glaze.

Answer 1

Explain how, without tasting it, Nicole can test to make sure she is using the sugar-water in the glaze.

Answer: Nicole can take a small amount of sample from both of the glasses, she can place the samples in two separate containers and leave them out in the sun, so that the water gets evaporated. One of the two containers will contain a residue of sugar. The one containing the sugar residue, is the sugar-water solution.

Answer 2

sugar-water is a mixture not a compound.(homogeneous mixture.)

Step-by-step explanation:

Compounds are substances formed by the chemical combination of two or more elements. Mixtures are substances formed by physically mixing two or more substances together.

The solution of sugar in water is considered a mixture not a compound because the particles of sugar and water are not completely dissolve nor mixed in a fixed proportion or ratio. hope this helped :)