Answer:
303.6 mg
Explanation:
Given that:
The lethal dose [tex]LD_{50}[/tex] = 1320 mg/kg
The weight of the rat = 230 g
The lethal dose is the dose of a substance likely to cause death. SO a lethal dose of 50 will cause the death of 50% of the sample of test animals.
Therefore;
The mass of 2-naphthol that would have been ingested by each rat in a sample set of rats in order to kill half the population of rats will be equal to:
[tex]=\dfrac{LD_{50}}{1000} \times wt \ of \ rat[/tex]
[tex]=\dfrac{1320}{1000}\times 230[/tex]
= 303.6 mg
