Question

what is 31/50000 If the toxic quantity is 1.5 g of ethylene glycol per 1000 g of body mass, what percentage of ethylene glycol is fatal

Answer 1

Answer:

$\%m=0.15\%$

Explanation:

Hello,

In this case, we are asked to compute the by mass percent representing the toxicity of ethylene glycol in the body mass. In such a way, since the by mass percent is computed with the shown below formula:

$\%m=\frac{m_{ethylene \ glycol}}{m_{ethylene \ glycol}+m_{body\ mass}}*100\%$

We can use the given masses to obtain:

$\%m=\frac{1.5g}{1.5g+1000g}*100\%\\ \\\%m=0.15\%$

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