Concentrations of Solutions: Pandora'S Box
Concentrations of Solutions: Pandora'S Box
CONCENTRATIONS OF
SOLUTIONS
Performance Task No. 5 (Q1)
Most Essential Learning Competency:
Express concentrations of solutions quantitatively by preparing different concentrations of mixtures according to
uses and availability of materials. (S7MT-Id-3)
PANDORA’S BOX
Pandora has a jewelry box full of gold jewels. She plans to give the 10- karat gold
necklace to you and a 14- karat gold bracelet to your sister. You and your sister want to
find out the percentage of gold on the jewels you had received by trying to pawn it in a
pawnshop. Try to help the teller in finding out the percent by mass of gold on the
jewels. To help you, here is an additional information. The composition of gold
jewelry is expressed in karats. Gold has 24 parts of the solution (alloy). The alloying
metal is usually copper. Identify the percent by mass of gold in the following
composition:
1. 10-karat gold