Question

Ammonia is manufactured for fertilizer. The truck hauling the ammonia can hold 450 kiloliters of the gas, which
is 20 moles. If a buyer only needs to purchase 225 kiloliters of the gas, how many moles is the buyer receiving?

Answer 1

Answer:

10 moles

Explanation:

set it up as a proportion

450 kL/20 moles = 225 kL/ x moles

Cross multiply to solve for x.