The Law of Conservation of Mass states that the mass of reactants entering a reaction must be equal to the mass of the products exiting it. In this case, we only have 2 reactants, Fe and S, and we only have 1 product, FeS. Therefore we expect the total mass of the Fe and S reactants to equal the mass of FeS. This gives us 112 g + 64 g = 176 g of FeS, which is choice D.
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Salinity has units of grams NaCl or salt per kilogram solution. We can use the density given and the molar mass of the salt to convert from salinity to molarity. We do as follows:
( 5.6 g / kg ) ( 1.03 kg / L ) ( 1 mol / 58.44 g ) = 0.0987 mol NaCl / L
