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Gracias. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
My mother purchased 100 pounds of potatoes last week, which I knew to be exactly 99% water.
After a week, drying in the sun, they had dried a little to become only 98% water.
What was the total weight of the potatoes now?
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50 pounds:
in the original 100 pounds, 99% was water, therefore the potato element weighed 1% = 1 pound. After drying the potato element still weighed 1 pound, which was now 2% of the total (and 98% water). Therefore the total must be 50 pounds, 49 pounds of water and 1 pound of the potato element.
the change in weight would largely be neglegable. the new weight would be somewhere betweel 99-100 lbs
What is the total weight of the potatoes now?
99 pounds.
50 lbs. 100 lbs to start 99 are water means 1 lb not water.
1lb is 1% of total. if 98 % is water then 1 lb is 2 %, 1 lb is 2 % of 50 lbs. Therefore,
Total weight is 50 lbs.
100lbs
99.01 lbs
not so mushy potatoes
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eh?
nope.
Hey, I'm right if I wanna be! :pQuote:
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Maybe I'm just a little rusty... :sad:
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