What is the effect of a catalyst on the equilibrium constant?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. No effect
- Step 1: A catalyst speeds both reactions equally and does not change K.
Answer
No effect.
Why not the others: It increases it, It decreases it and It doubles it don't fit.
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