If you need to prepare 250.0 mL of a pH 5.00 buffer that has a total buffer concentration of acetic acid + sodium acetate of 0.050M, how many moles of each will you need to prepare the solution? Given solutions of acetic acid and sodium acetate with concentrations of 0.10M and pKa = 4.76; describe how to prepare this buffer.

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