Complete hydrolysis of a 100.00-g sample of a peptide gave the following amounts of individual amino acids (molarmasses, in g/mol, appear in parentheses):3.00 g of glycine (75.07) ;0.90 g of alanine (89.10);3.70 g of valine (117.15);6.90 g of proline (115.13);7.30 g of serine (105.10);86.00 g of arginine (174.21);(a) Why does the total mass of amino acids exceed the mass of peptide? (b) What are the relative numbers of amino acids in the peptide? (c) What is the minimum molar mass of the peptide?

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Complete hydrolysis of a 100.00-g sample of a peptide gave the following amounts of individual amino acids (molarmasses, in g/mol, appear in parentheses):3.00 g of glycine (75.07) ;0.90 g of alanine (89.10);3.70 g of valine (117.15);6.90 g of proline (115.13);7.30 g of serine (105.10);86.00 g of arginine (174.21);(a) Why does the total mass of amino acids exceed the mass of peptide? (b) What are the relative numbers of amino acids in the peptide? (c) What is the minimum molar mass of the peptide?

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