What mass of "NaBr" is needed to prepare "50.00 mL" of a 6.5% (m/v) solution in distilled water?

1 Answer
Mar 23, 2018

"3.3 g NaBr"

Explanation:

A solution's mass by volume percent concentration, "m/v %", tells you the number of grams of solute present in exactly "100.0 mL" of the solution.

So all you need to know in order to figure out a solution's mass by volume percent concentration is the number of grams of solute present for every "100..0 mL" of the solution.

In your case, you know that you're dealing with a 6.5% "m/v" solution, which means that every "100.0 mL" of this solution contain "6.5 g" of sodium bromide, the solute.

So you can say that in order to get the equivalent of "6.5 g" of sodium bromide in "100.0 mL" of this solution, you need "50.00 mL" of the solution to contain

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The answer is rounded to two sig figs, the number of sig figs you have for the mass by volume percent concentration.

To make this solution, you would dissolve "3.3 g" of sodium bromide in "20.00 mL" of distilled water, then add enough water to ensure that the final volume of the solution is equal ot "50.00 mL".