document.write( "Question 1196905: Cucumbers are assumed, for present purposes, to be a substance that is 99% water by weight. If 500 pounds of cucumbers are allowed to stand overnight, and if the partially evaporated substance that remains in the morning is 98% water, how much is the morning weight?\r
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document.write( "If 500 pounds of cucumbers are 99% water by weight, it means that the weight of the dry fiber\r\n" );
document.write( "is 1% by weight, or 5 pounds.\r\n" );
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document.write( "After partial water evaporate, the weight of the dry fiber remains the same (with no change).\r\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore, if after partial water evaporate the cucumbers are 98% water by weight, it means that\r\n" );
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document.write( "    \"dry_fiber%2Ftotal_weight_after_drying\" = \"5%2Ftotal_weight_after_drying\" = 0.02.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It implies\r\n" );
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document.write( "    total weight of cucumbers after drying = \"5%2F0.02\" = \"500%2F2\" = 250 pounds.    ANSWER\r\n" );
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