SOLUTION: Suppose you have a beaker containing 50 grams of a salt-water mixture. The mixture contains 8 g of salt. What is the % concentration?
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Question 711251: Suppose you have a beaker containing 50 grams of a salt-water mixture. The mixture contains 8 g of salt. What is the % concentration?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You say what's given is 50 grams of salt+water, and within that is 8 grams of salt. Good. Calculate the fraction of the mixture which is salt. If you want as percent, multiply by 100.
[mass of salt] divided by [mass of mixture] = fraction as salt
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