Each day for a week, Paul swims 20 laps of a 50 metre pool. One lap is from one end of the pool to the other. He wants to know if he keeps this up, how many laps he will have completed after 5 weeks and how far he would have swum in that time. (a) How many laps does Paul swim in one week?

the law of definite proportions states samples of a compound will always contain the same proportion of elements by mass. in other words, a given compound will always contain the same elements in the same proportions by mass.the law of multiple proportions states when two elements combine with each other to form more than one compound, then the weights of one element that combine with a fixed weight of the other are in a ratio of small whole numbers.