SOLUTION: Almost all of the water must be removed when food is preserved by freeze-drying. Find the weight of the water removed from 750 pounds of a food that is 36% water.

Question 1092509: Almost all of the water must be removed when food is preserved by freeze-drying.
Find the weight of the water removed from 750 pounds of a food that is 36% water.
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Almost all of the water must be removed when food is preserved by freeze-drying.
Find the weight of the water removed from 750 pounds of a food that is 36% water.
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The fact that 750 pounds of food contain 36% of water means that the water contents in the food is  = 270 pounds.


So, there are 270 pounds of water in the 750 pounds of the food.


All this water should be removed, according to the condition.


Answer.  270 pounds of water should be removed.

Solved.

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