Question

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.

Answer 1

Determine the amount of sodium that has been actually added, in grams.

State the chemical formula of salt and classify the bond as ionic, polar covalent, or non-polar covalent.

Answer 2

Table Salt is NaCl and is Ionic.

Answer 3

ok cool thanks =)

do you know about any of the other stuff?

Answer 4

If she adds six spoons of salt, each of which has 2300 mg,
so its 6 X 2300 mg,
and then convert it to grams.

Answer 5

oh ok thank you @peanutman

Answer 6

make sure to convert from mg to g

Answer 7

how do you do that? im so confused with this stuff =(

Answer 8

1000 mg is 1 g,
so mg to g is:
x mg to x/1000g
or alternatively:
x mg to x times 10^-3g

Answer 9

so in your case first work out what x is by multiplying 2300 by six

Answer 10

so i have 13800

Answer 11

now divide by 1000, what do you get?

Answer 12

13.8

Answer 13

that's right!,
and don't forget the g symbol

Answer 14

wow thats actually pretty easy

Answer 15

:)

Answer 16

all salts are ionic

Answer 17

a salt is in fact another name for an ionically bonded thing

Answer 18

thank you so much!

Answer 19

Another way to tell is that it is a metal and a non metal together.

Answer 20

Sodium - metal,
Chloride - non -metal

Answer 21

so what is the chemical formula for salt?

Answer 22

NaCl?

Answer 23

any metal and non-metal together, eg: KCl, LiF, CaCl2
In table salt - what we use in our kitchens - the metal is sodium and the non metal is chloride so NaCl

Answer 24

oh, and she likes to skate and salsa dance :)

Answer 25

haha i wish i had the energy to do salsa dance and skate lol

Answer 26

:)

Answer 27

=)