SOLUTION: How many liters of water must be evaporated from 10 L of a 30% salt solution to produce a 50% solution?
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Question 462039: How many liters of water must be evaporated from 10 L of a 30% salt solution to produce a 50% solution?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you have 10L of 30% solution, then 3L must be salt. Since the salt stays put when you evaporate the liquid, after the evaporation, there will still be 3L of salt. In order to have a 50% solution with 3L of salt, you need 6L of salt water. 10 minus 6 is 4 Liters that need to evaporate.
John

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