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Would the basic salt not increase the pH of the buffer?

For this question I'm confused as to why it is A (I have read a previous post explaining this to be correct but still don't understand it) and not B. My reasoning being, that we could react ethanoic acid and sodium hydroxide to produce sodium ethanoate (basic salt). Then we could use an...

Could someone help me out with the last two parts of this question? Also would the name of Compound Y be 2,2-dimethyl butanoic acid?

This is a question that comes up every now and then and takes me too long to wrap my head around. Could someone please help me out with this question.