Question

A 400-milliliter solution of a fabric dye contains 8 ml of hydrogen peroxide. What is the percent concentration of the hydrogen peroxide?

Answer 1

Answer:

Okay so all you need to know is the percentage of the hydrogen peroxide.
We know that the total solution is 400 ml and the hydrogen peroxide solution is 8ml.
8/400

Percent means out of a hundred, this can go multiple ways.

Way #1, benchmarking.

So 8/400 simplified is 1/50 or 2/100.
1/50 is basically 2/100.

And percent means out of a hundred so 2/100 is basically 2percent.

Way #2, proportions

We want to know the percentage of hydrogen/ fabric dye

If you put it in numbers int he same fraction and put “x” as the unknown 8ml hydrogen peroxide solution you’d get.

8/400 = x/100
X/100 because percent means out of a hundred.
Now solve3

Cross multiply,

800 = 400x
divide 400 on both sides

2=x

Now plug it back in the proportion.

8/400 = 2/100

If you simplify to check if they are equal then it’s correct