Question

how much sodium chloride must be added to 100 mL of water so that its concentration is 20 parts per million assume that the density of water is 1.00g/ml

Answer 1

Answer: 2mg

Part per million is unit that equal to mg/kg of water or simply
`10^(-6)` . In this case, you asked how much NaCl needed and know the volume of water(100mL), concentration(20ppm or 20 mg/kg) and water density.
Then, the equation would be

concentration = NaCl weight/ water weight
20 x
`10^(-6)` mg= NaCl weight/ (100ml x 1g/ml)
NaCl weight= 20x
`10^(-6)` mg/kg x 100g
NaCl weight= 2000 x
`10^(-6)` g
NaCl weight= 2x
`10^(-3)` g = 2mg