A Sample of Water That Is 99

question 2

Multiple Choice

A sample of water that is 99.9999 percent pure contains 0.0001 percent impurities. Consider from Chapter 1 that a glass of water contains on the order of a trillion trillion (1 × ) molecules. If 0.0001 percent of these molecules were the molecules of some impurity, about how many impurity molecules would this be?

• A)1000 (one thousand: 1 × )
• B)1,000,000 (one million: 1 × )
• C)1,000,000,000 (one billion: 1 × )
• D)1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million trillion: 1 × )

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