Question

A chloride of a metal contains $47.23$% of the metal. Find out the equivalent weight of the metal.

Answer 1

47.23 percent of metal means chloride is 52.87 percent

That is, 100g of metal chloride contains 47.23g of metal and 52.87 g of chloride.

Therefore, Equivalent weight = $w=\frac{47.23}{52.87}\times 35.5$

$=31.712g$