Ethyl acetate would be chosen to extract solute X from water.
- It is given that the solute is equally soluble in organic solvents acetone and ethyl acetate.
- To separate the solute from the solvent the solute should be immiscible with the solvent. This is because immiscible solvents help in easy separation of the solute as immiscible never fully mixes in any proportions.
- This forms a separate layer between the solute and solvent thus making the separation easily possible.
- From the given solvents acetone and ethyl acetate, ethyl acetate is immiscible with the solvent and thus separation can be done easily with ethyl acetate.
Thus, ethyl acetate can be used to extract solute X from water.
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