Question

Please let me know if I did this correctly, it's due today. Thanks

A freshman is currently enjoying the Arts Studio program she is pursuing at a well-known university. In her free time, she likes to skate, take salsa dance lessons, and cook. She particularly enjoys pickling and decides to pickle olives over a leisurely weekend. According to the recipe, she needs to add three teaspoons of salt to one cup of diced olives. However, she erroneously adds six teaspoons instead. Each teaspoon of salt weighs about 5g and contains about 2,300 mg of sodium.
• Determine the amount of sodium that has

Answer 1

been actually added, in grams.

• State the chemical formula of salt and classify the bond as ionic, polar covalent, or non-polar covalent.
2,300 * 6= 13,800 mg of sodium
1,000mg : 1g :: 13,800mg : Xg
13,800 / 1,000 = 13.8g of sodium was used in the recipe.
The chemical formula of salt is NaCl and it is an ionic bond.


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Answer 2

that looks fine to me i just usually use unit factors when converting. So I would write

13800mg* (1g/1000mg) then cancel out the units on the top and the bottom but what you have is correct, i just wanted to show you how i learned because once you get in to more conversions unit factors will be the only way to go.

Answer 3

Cool, thanks so much :)

Answer 4

yea no problem :)