Miss White wants to make a (decidedly not poisoned) apple pie. The recipe she is using asks for a specific mass of apples, but Miss White doesn't have a balance, so
finding mass directly will be difficult. What she DOES have is a graduated cylinder,
which she uses to find that her apples have a volume of 786,3 ml. She also knows
that her apples have a density of around 0.98 g/ml. What is the mass of Miss
White's apples? Please round your answer to 0.01 grams.

explanation:

metals have excess of electrons whereas non-metals have deficiency of electrons. thus, in order to gain stability metals easily donate their electrons to the non-metals.

for example, electronic configuration of sodium is and electronic configuration of phosphorous is .

when a phosphorous atom and sodium atom combine together then sodium will donate is extra one electron to the phosphorous atom. as a result there will be formation of ionic bond between sodium and phosphorous.

the reaction will be as follows.

there, are three sodium sodium atoms and each of them will donate its one extra electron to phosphorous atom. thus, the sub-shell of phosphorous gets completely filled.  

thus, we can conclude that electrons are transferred from atoms of sodium to atoms of phosphorous. this transfer makes the sodium atoms donate one electron and the phosphorous atoms to gain one electron. as a result, the sodium and phosphorus atoms strongly attract each other.