Question 869372
Try viewing the cucumber with its solids concentration.  1% solid and 99% water, the typical cucumber.


Let x = amount of pounds of material, water, which evaporates from your 100 pound cucumber.  The x pounds eveporates until percent solids becomes 2% and water becomes 98%.


{{{(100*1)/(100-x)=2}}}, the total solid matter stays the same but the x pounds of water leaves.


{{{100=2(100-x)}}}
{{{100=200-2x}}}
{{{50=100-x}}}
{{{50-100=-x}}}
{{{x=100-50}}}
{{{highlight(x=50)}}} pounds water.


That should not seem strange.  Note, this accounts to doubling the concentration of the solid matter of the cucumber.  Try a check in the original equation.