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. We're going to basically compare our second and third experiment to our first experiment and see how our initial rate changes. So in the first experiment, we see that we have 0.5
molar of initial methyl acetate and 0.5 molar of our initial hydroxide. Now, when these two concentrations are 0.5
each, our initial rate is 0.2.