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My mother purchased 100 pounds of potatoes last week, which I knew to be exactly 99% water. After a week, drying in the sun, they had dried a little to become only 98% water. What was the total weight of the potatoes now? [Ref: ZDMV]50 pounds: when the potatoes were originally bought they were 99% water, which weighed 99 pounds. So the potato part weighed 1 pound. Once they had dried a little they were now 98% water and 2% potato. This 2% potato must still weigh 1 pound. This means that every 2% of the water also weighed 1 pound, which means there was 49 pounds of water and 1 pound of potato. A total of 50 pounds. QED.
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