You have a sack of potatos which weighs 100 lbs. The potatos are 99% water. (Ignore the sack.) You leave the potatos out for a couple of days. The potatos are now 98% water. What does the sack of potatos weigh?
Or is it potatoes? As Dan Quayle said, "The future will be better tomorrow."
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What? No takers? C'mon!
A 100 lb. sack of potatos that is 99% water gets dehydrated ( a bit) so that it is now 98% water. What does the sack of potatos now weigh?
Easy!
50 lbs.
Obviously no potatoes left the sack, so if it started with 1 lb. potatoes, it will still have 1 lb. potatoes. If x=weight of sack of potatoes, .02x=1lb. x=50lbs.
Thank you, Luke.
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