Question

- A compound contains 4.56g. of Pb, 2.3g Cl, and 3.1g 0. What is the percent

composition for each element?
please show work

Answer 1

add up all the grams to get 9.96, then divide the amount if each element by the total;
4.56 of Pb divided by 9.96 = 0.4578313 now multiply by 100 and get 45.8% of Pb, then do the same for the rest of the elements, hope this helped <3