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Taylan (GNU+Feminism Cat)
taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
Let's say a potato is 99% water. It loses water until it's 98% water. How much water did the potato lose?
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@taylan ~1.01...%
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Taylan (GNU+Feminism Cat)
taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
@Suiseiseki
Nope. Correct answer follows.
* Being 99% water means it was 1 part solid to 99 parts water.
* To be 98% water, it would need to go down to 1 part solid to 49 parts water.
* Since it didn't lose any solid matter, it needs to lose 50 out of 99 parts water it had.
* Therefore the answer is that it lost 50.5050...% of its water.
(And assuming it was 99% water _by mass_ it means it lost exactly 50% of its total mass, since it lost 50 parts out of 100 total.)
Nope. Correct answer follows.
* Being 99% water means it was 1 part solid to 99 parts water.
* To be 98% water, it would need to go down to 1 part solid to 49 parts water.
* Since it didn't lose any solid matter, it needs to lose 50 out of 99 parts water it had.
* Therefore the answer is that it lost 50.5050...% of its water.
(And assuming it was 99% water _by mass_ it means it lost exactly 50% of its total mass, since it lost 50 parts out of 100 total.)
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Taylan (GNU+Feminism Cat)
taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
@dagda @Suiseiseki
I had difficulty accepting it at first but the maths checks out so... Shou ga nai desu~~~
I had difficulty accepting it at first but the maths checks out so... Shou ga nai desu~~~
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@taylan Depends on how heavy potato was
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