SOLUTION: How much water must be evaporated from 400 gallons of a 14% saline solution to get a 40% saline solution?
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Question 133194: How much water must be evaporated from 400 gallons of a 14% saline solution to get a 40% saline solution?
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
How much salt is in the original solution?
= 56
The amount of salt doesn;t change. So we need to find the ratio where 56 is 40% of some other number.
n = 140
In order to increase the salinity from 14% to 40%, you need to remove = 260 gallons of water
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