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You have 100 kilograms of puzzling mangoes, which are 99 percent water by weight.
You let them dehydrate until they are 98 percent water.
How much do they weigh now ?

Asked In Others FAISAL RIZWAN (10 years ago)

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Madhu pericherla  (10 years ago)

Perhaps surprisingly, the mangoes now weigh 50 kilograms. The sack of mangoes originally weighed 100 kilograms, and 1 percent of its weight, or 1 pound, was non-water. If that 1 pound now makes up 2 percent of the total weight, then the total weight must be 50 kilograms.

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