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What is the mass number of an atom equal to?
Responses

the number of protons plus the number of neutrons in a nucleus

the number of protons plus the number of neutrons in a nucleus

the number of electrons circling the nucleus of an atom

the number of electrons circling the nucleus of an atom

the number of protons in a nucleus

the number of protons in a nucleus

the number of protons plus the number of electrons in an atom

the number of protons plus the number of electrons in an atom

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The mass number = the number of protons plus the number of neutrons in the nucleus.

(Atomic number = number of protons. Electrons are not counted in the mass number; mass number is often written as A.)