Question

You have 125 g of a certain seasoning and are told that it contains 70.0 g of salt. What is the peroentage of salt by mass in this seasoning?

Answer 1

$\frac{70}{125} \times 100 = 56\%$

Answer 2

Answer

Percentage of salt is 56%

Explanation

The total weight of seasoning = 125 g of a certain seasoning total weight of salt = 70.0 g of salt to find the percentage we have to divide the weight of salt with the weight of certain seasoning and multiply by 100 like percentage = salt * 100/weight total. Hence the salt = 70 g seasoning and  weight 125g.

Calculation are shown below:

70*100/125 = 70*4/5 = 14*4 = 56% in 125g seasoning, there is 56% of salt

Therefore, the answer is the percentage of salt mass is 56%.