Sodas typically contain sugar, flavorings, coloring agents, and carbon dioxide dissolved in water. the best term to describe this mixture would be
a) an aqueous solvent
b) an aqueous solution
c) a solution
d) a solvent
e) a solute

The correct answer is aqueous solution

Explanation:

The mixture is best described as AQUEOUS SOLUTION because water is the solvent used to dissolve the various solutes (sugar, flavorings, coloring agents, and carbon dioxide). The resulting mixture is a aqueous solution known as Soda.

it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.