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Cucumbers are on sale so you buy 100 pounds of them at your local market The cucumbers are 99 percent water Some days later they dry out to 98 percent water How much do they weigh now?
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The answer is 50 pounds. The first day the part of the cucumbers that is not water is 1% of the total weight, or 1 pound. Several days later the non-water part of the cucumber is now 2% of the total weight, but still weighs 1 pound. if 2% is 1 pound, 100% is 50 pounds.
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Cucumbers are on sale so you buy 100 pounds at the local market The cucumbers are 99 percent water some days later they dry out to 98 percent water how much do they weigh now?
Originally, 1 pound was non-water. If the non-water part has not changed and now the total is 98 percent water, then the 1 pound non-water now amounts to 2 percent of the total, so the total weight is 50 pounds.
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