SOLUTION: If you need to mix a 20% salt solution for a patient, how much salt in grams would you add to 100 ml of water (weighs 100 gms)?

Question 402336: If you need to mix a 20% salt solution for a patient, how much salt in grams would you add to 100 ml of water (weighs 100 gms)?

Answer by Tatiana_Stebko(1539) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x gms solt will add to 100 gms water, then all solution will be gms, 20% of this solution is gms, but from text 20% of solution is solt (so x gms)
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So we have to mix 25 gms of solt with 100 ml of water if we need 20% salt solution
Answer 25 gms
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