Question

An 8th grade goes to a restaurant for dinner with their family. At dinner, the student orders iced tea. The ice and tea combined to weigh 210 grams. The student then added sugar and lemon to their tea. The sugar weighed 20 grams and the lemon weighed 15 grams. After adding the sugar and lemon, the student stated the tea weighs 225 (210 grams ice & tea + 15 grams lemon) grams since only the lemon would add weight to the tea because the sugar was dissolved. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Justify your choice.

Answer 1

Disagree, the total mass is 245 grams.

Step-by-step explanation:

We need to keep in mind the Law of Conservation of Mass. Each gram added to the lemonade (a system) will remain there unless it is somehow removed. The added mass of both sugar and lemon count for the total mass (210+20+15), even if the sugar was dissolved.