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Originally Posted by Brianna

You buy 100 lbs of cucumbers. Cukes are 99% water. In a few days they later dry out to 98% water. How much do they weigh?

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100 lbs of cucumbers that are 99% water. If cucumber loses water volume, then cucumber is 98% water - by volume. For every cubic foot of 'pure cucumber', we once had 99 cubic feet of water; but now only have 49 cubic feet of water. Still we don't know how much the cucumber weighs because we don't know weight densities.

For example if 99 cubic feet of water weighed 1 pound, then 'pure cucumber' weights 99 pounds. Therefore we have reduced weight from 100 pounds to 99.495 lbs. However if 'pure cucumber' is 10 pounds and 99 cubic feet of water is 90 pounds, then we have reduced cucumber to 54.54 pounds.


To accomplish same assuming 99% water 'by weight' - not by volume. 100 lbs of cucumber is 99 lbs water and 1 lbs 'pure cucumber'. When partially dried, then 1 lbs of pure cucumber remains. To be 98% water (by weight), then 1 lbs cucumber is mixed with 49 lbs water. This time we have eliminated 50 lbs of water or more than 50% of that water - by weight and by volume.

Problem forgot to define percentage in terms of volume or weight - or time. 'Do' is a time before the drying or after the drying? Classic examples of perspective perversion. Therefore only Rush Limbaugh - who is good at providing answers by conventiently making assumptions and forgetting facts - could have answered the question.

Oral sex. Does that mean I get a phone call? Another question of missing information - perspective.