SOLUTION: By weight, sodium in table salt is 35.46 to 23.00. How much sodium is contained in 78.00 grams of salt?

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Question 785017: By weight, sodium in table salt is 35.46 to 23.00. How much sodium is contained in 78.00 grams of salt?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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More correctly, the formula weight for table salt's main ingredient, sodium chloride, is 23.00%2B35.46=58.46, GRAMS PER MOLE. The sodium accounts for the 23.00 grams per mole in one mole or one gram of sodium chloride. The percentage of sodium in table salt is %2823.00%2F58.46%29%2A100=39.34%.

How much sodium in 78.00 grams of table salt?
highlight%2878.00%2A%2823.00%2F58.46%29=30.69%29 grams sodium