SOLUTION: melanie mixed 8mL of a salt solution with 9mL of a 49% salt solution, to make a 48% salt solution. find the percent salt concentration of the first solution.

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Question 1049828: melanie mixed 8mL of a salt solution with 9mL of a 49% salt solution, to make a 48% salt solution. find the percent salt concentration of the first solution.
Answer by ikleyn(52787) About Me  (Show Source):
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For Sodium Chloride (NaCl) maximal solubility is 360 g per liter of water.

49% salt solution is something special. Perhaps, even something non-existing.

There is no sense to solve it.

Who invented it?