SOLUTION: A 200-pound watermelon is 90 percent water. It is dehydrated until it is only 80 percent water. What is its weight after dehydration?

Question 1118256: A 200-pound watermelon is 90 percent water. It is dehydrated until it is only 80
percent water. What is its weight after dehydration?
Found 2 solutions by josmiceli, josgarithmetic:
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are pounds of water
pounds is not water
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Then it loses 10% of it's weight, so it loses
pounds of water
There is pounds of water left

Weigh after dehydration is 180 pounds
Feel free to get a 2nd opinon, too

Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, amount water removed

The 200 pound melon is 10 percent non-volatile matter; and when dehydrated, brought to 20 percent non-volatile matter.

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-------the watermelon's weight after drying to 80%water, 20%non-water.
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