Consider the following reaction: The data shown below have been obtained at a temperature of 360 K: X+YZ

a. Determine the overall order of the reaction. b. Determine the initial rate of disappearance of X when the concentration of X is 0.30 M and the corresponding value of Y is 0.40 M.

EXPERIMENT 1 2 3 4 5 (X), (m) 0.10 0.20 0.40 0.20 0.40 (V), (m) 0.50 0.30 0.60 0.60 0.30 initialsmeed oilal de desaparicin de X, (m/s) disappearance of X 0.147 0.127 4.064 1.016 0.508 5