Now, in this lecture, we're going to look at the following form reaction and try to determine our rate law using some experimental data. So let's begin. 1 mol of methyl acetate react with 1 mol of hydroxide to produce 1 mol of acetate ion and 1 mol of methanol. Now, let's conduct the following three experiments in which we measure in each experiment the concentration of methylacetate and hydroxide and we find the initial rate. Now, our goal is to see how our initial rate changes when we change our concentration of reactants. Now, the first experiment will serve as a control.