give three reasons why hydrocloric acid is the sulute and water is the solvent in this solution?

Answer 1

1. Pure HCl is a gas, and pure water is a liquid
2. There is much less HCl than H2O
3. HCl dissociates on dissolving, and the resultant H+ and HCl- ions are heavily hydrated - by the solvent.

Answer 2

You make HCl by dissolving HCl gas (in pure state) in water..(So water is a solvent)

Water dissociates HCl( H+ and Cl-) and not the other way round

Density of HCl is more than water,which also contributes towards water acting as solvent and HCl as solute