subflood > wrote:
> I'm learning about specific gravity and I need a little help.

> Say you have 5 bottles of sal****er solution. You know the percent of
> salt each bottle contains and it's specific gravity. For example:

> 5% = 1.050
> 10% = 1.080
> 15% = 1.120
> 20% = 1.150
> 25% = 1.200

> Now what if you had a bottle that contained an x% of salt but it's
> specific gravity was 1.100. How would you calculate how much percent
> of salt the bottle contains?

The engineer in me wants to plot a graph from sample points and
then extrapolate the % for SG=1.100 from the chart. The numbers
presented here are not consistent. Are these your real readings?
If not, do you have real readings?


-- WB