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You construct a plasma membrane that forms a cell. Inside the cell you place a 1 M salt solution. You place the cell in a flask filled with a 1 M sugar solution. Which of the following would you expect to happen?

A. Water would exit the cell because sugar is a larger molecule than salt.
B. Water would enter and exit the cell at the same rate because the solute concentrations inside and outside the cell are the same.

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water would enter and exit the cell at the same rate so the answer to this question is letter B
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