5 g of oven dried soil was heated in a furnace for 24 hours. After cooling, it weighed 4.8 g. What is the amount of humus in the soil?
a
40.0g per 100 g dry soil
b
4.4g per 100g dry soil
c
4.0 g per 100g dry soil
d
0.4g per 100g dry soil
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Annychie
2 years ago
humus content(%): (initial weight - final weight) / initial weight *100
5 - 4.8 = 0.2 / 5 = 0.04 * 100 = 4g per 100g dry soil
