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Suppose that you have a huge cucumber that is 99% water (by weight). The cucumber weighs 100 pounds. If the water content of the cucumber evaporates until it is 98% water (by weight), then approximately how much does the cucumber now weigh?

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Saraswathy  (10 years ago)

Total Weight of Cucumber = 100 pounds (including 99% water nd 1%
cucumber]
Weight of water = 100*99/100 = 99 pounds
Weight of solid part = 100-99 = 1 pound
If water content evaporates , weight of solid part remains same only... bcozzz water only ll get evaporated...
So weight of solid part = 1 pound
Let the new total weight(solid part+water) of cucumber be "x"
Weight of water is
x*98/100 = x-1 [since (x-1) is the weight of water...water weight=total weight-solid part weight... ie x-1]
98x = 100x-100
2x = 100
x = 50 pounds

So the new weight of cucumber = 50 pounds [98% water, 1%solid part]

Ans : 50 pounds

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karthi keyan  (10 years ago)

Ans: 50 kg
In 100 pounds of cucumber, cucumber matter = 1kg and water weighs 99kg.
Let the revised weight of cucumber be x kg.
Now the cucumber matter weighs the same. So in 98% water by weight, the remaining 2% of x is 1kg of cucumber matter.
Thus x*2/100 = 1kg, x=50 kg

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