SOLUTION: A chemist has 20 liters of a solution which is 35 % salt. How much water must be added to make the solution 28% salt?
answer:5 liters of water are added
need a simple brea
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Question 164469: A chemist has 20 liters of a solution which is 35 % salt. How much water must be added to make the solution 28% salt?
answer:5 liters of water are added
need a simple breakdown of how my text book got 5 liters of water are added as the answer
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A 20 liter solution that is 35% salt would have
liters of salt.
The amount of salt stays the same and the amount of water increases.
The concentration of salt becomes,
where X is the number of liters of water added.
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