What does the Law of Conservation of Mass state?(1 point)

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The total mass of all of the reactants prior to a chemical reaction must equal the total mass of all the products after the reaction.
The total mass of all of the reactants prior to a chemical reaction must equal the total mass of all the products after the reaction.

Matter cannot be rearranged during a chemical reaction.
Matter cannot be rearranged during a chemical reaction.

Matter is neither created or destroyed in a chemical reaction, only rearranged.
Matter is neither created or destroyed in a chemical reaction, only rearranged.

The total mass of reactants prior to a chemical reaction is greater than the mass of the product due to the release of energy.

Answer 1

The correct statement for the Law of Conservation of Mass is:

The total mass of all of the reactants prior to a chemical reaction must equal the total mass of all the products after the reaction.

This means that in a closed system, matter is neither created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction; it is simply rearranged.