concentration calculation problem

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upon evaporating at 25 ml sample of a table salt, NaCl, solution to dryness, 0.585 g of salt were obtained. the concentration of the solution, at the start, was:

how would you calculate this problem? thanks!
 
upon evaporating at 25 ml sample of a table salt, NaCl, solution to dryness, 0.585 g of salt were obtained. the concentration of the solution, at the start, was:

how would you calculate this problem? thanks!

let me guess...
we get molar mass of NaCl and get the difference with 0.585g to find out how much is gone then using the ratio get the original volume other than 25ml. using those two new numbers we found substitute it into
concentration= molarity = g/volume at the start.

am i wrong? i think i m wrong 😀
 
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You have .585 g of salt in 25 ml of solution. For 1 liter you would have

25:.585=(1000):xg solving for x
x=40 (.585) g/L

1 molar would be 58.5g, then

1m:58.5=?M: (40)(.585)
solving for m= (40)(.585):58.5
M=.4