SOLUTION: JIM NEEDS TO PREPARE ONE LITER OF A 4% NACL SOLUTION. HOW MUCH NACL SHOULD HE WEIGH OUT?

Question 465899: JIM NEEDS TO PREPARE ONE LITER OF A 4% NACL SOLUTION. HOW MUCH NACL SHOULD HE WEIGH OUT?
Found 2 solutions by jorel1380, richard1234:
Answer by jorel1380(3719) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.04x1 liter=.04 liters
.04 liters=40 milliliters..
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
4% of a 1 L NaCl solution is .04 L = 40 mL = 40 cm^3. However we want to find the mass of the salt by doing a unit conversion (had to look up the density online):

(40 cm^3)(2.165 g/cm^3) = 86.6 g
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