SOLUTION: A chemist has 100 ml of a solution that is 6% acetic acid. If the chemist adds 20 ml of pure water to this solution, what is the percent concentration of the resulting mixture?

Question 783759: A chemist has 100 ml of a solution that is 6% acetic acid. If the chemist adds 20 ml of pure water to this solution, what is the percent concentration of the resulting mixture?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
New quantity of solution is 100+20=120 ml. The amount of acetic acid is still the same.
percent.

Another way to understand this is that you are diluting the 6% acid so that the factor is or or of the initial concentration.
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