Question

suppose a solution was prepared by dissolving 20.0g of sugar into 100g of water.calculate for the percentage by mass composition of solution?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

One way to describe the concentration of a solution is by the percent of a solute in the solvent. The percent can further be determined in one of two ways: (1) the ratio of the mass of the solute divided by the mass of the solution or (2) the ratio of the volume of the solute divided by the volume of the solution.

Mass Percent

When the solute in a solution is a solid, a convenient way to express the concentration is a mass percent left ( frac{text{mass}}{text{mass}}right ) , which is the grams of solute per 100 g of solution.

text{Percent by mass}=frac{text{mass of solute}}{text{mass of solution}} times 100%

Suppose that a solution was prepared by dissolving 25.0 g of sugar into 100 g of water. The percent by mass would be calculated by:

text{Percent by mass}=frac{25 text{ g sugar}}{125 text{ g solution}} times 100% = 20% text{sugar}

Sometimes you may want to make up a particular mass of solution of a given percent by mass and need to calculate what mass of the solvent to use. For example, you need to make 3000 g of a 5% solution of sodium chloride. You can rearrange and solve for the mass of solute.

text{mass of solute}=frac{text{percent by mass}}{100%} times text{mass of solution}=frac{5%}{100%} times 3000 text{ g}=150 text{ g NaCl}

You would need to weigh out 150 g of NaCl and add it to 2850 g of water. Notice that it was necessary to subtract the mass of the NaCl (150 g) from the mass of solution (3000 g) to calculate the mass of the water that would need to be added.