A solution weighing 460 g contains 26 g of salt. What is the percentage of salt?

It is known from the condition that a solution weighing 460 grams contains 26 grams of salt. In order to find how many percent of the salt is contained in the solution, let’s compose and solve the proportion.
Let’s take the entire mass of the solution as 100%, and use the x variable to denote the percentage of salt in the solution.
We compose and solve the proportion.
460 grams – 100%;
26 grams – x%.
We got the proportion:
460/26 = 100 / x;
We need to find the unknown extreme term of the proportion:
x = (26 * 100) / 460 = 2600/460 = 5.65% salt is contained in the solution.
Answer: 5.65%.