A kitchen worker at a local hospital was filling salt shakers. For those patients on a sodium restricted diet due to high blood pressure, the hospital provided a salt substitute containing potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride. Unfortunately, the hospital worker mixed some of the containers up. How could the contents of the containers be indefited?

the positions which points up in upward carbon and down in downward carbon are axial

and vice versa holds true for equatorial positions

so the correct answer with labelled diagram will be

substituting a hydrogen atom with a halogen in a hydrocarbon:

- the single bond remains single. a is wrong.

- the bond with hydrogen is as strong as with a halogen. c is wrong

- a hydrocarbon is saturated if there is no double bond. we do not know that so d is wrong.

- carbon will always have four valence electrons. e is wrong.

by elimination, the correct answer is b. the boiling point of the new compound increases.