Solving for sodium
You have high blood pressure and need to limit sodium to less than 2,000 milligrams a day. A can of soup has 650 milligrams of sodium in a serving. The catch—one serving equals 1 cup and you usually eat the whole can, which has 2 cups.How much sodium do you have left to eat for the rest of the day?
Hint: Calculate the amount of sodium in the can of soup.
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1 solution
The can of soup equals 2 servings. Each serving has 650 milligrams of sodium, so, 6 5 0 + 6 5 0 = 1 3 0 0 milligrams of sodium in the entire can of soup. To figure out how much sodium is left for the rest of the day, 1300 subtracted from 2000 equals 700 milligrams of sodium remaining.