Q: What term means the percent by mass of each element in a compound?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Chemists often need to know what elements are present in a compound and in what percentage. The percent composition is the percent by mass of each element in a compound. It is calculated in a similar way that we just indicated for the peanut butter.

 Choices:

- molecular composition

- calculated composition

- mass composition

- percent composition


A:
percent composition