Question

nalysis: 10. Explain the difference between percent abundance and relative abundance. What is the result when you total the individual percent abundances? The individual relative abundances? 11. The percent abundance of each kind of candy tells you how many of each kind of candy there are in every 100 particles. What does relative abundance tell you?

Answer 1

10. Relative abundance makes reference to the proportion of the elements in a group with relation the total number of elements used. For example, if you had 16 candies, and 8 of them were red, the relative abundance of red candies would be 8/16 = 0.5. The sum of all relative abundances should result in a value of 1. On the other hand percentage abundance makes reference to the number of elements in a group in every 100 elements. For example, if we had 43 red candies in a group of 100, there would be a 43% abundance of red candies. The sum of all percentage abundances should result in a value of 100%.

11. Relative abundance tells the abundance of each type of candy in the particular amount of candies you have at the moment of counting them.