Question

If a student puts a dialysis tube with 15% salt in it, into a beaker that has only 5% salt, what would happen to the movement of water?

Answer 1

- Water from beaker will move to the tube

Step-by-step explanation:

Total percentage of water in the beaker;

`= { \tt{100\% - 5\%}} \\ = { \tt{95\%}}`

Total percentage of water in dialysis tube;

`{ \tt{ = 100\% - 15\%}} \\ = { \tt{85\%}}`

So, there is much water concentration in the beaker than the dialysis tubing, this causes a determined percentage of water to diffuse to the tubing, and determined percentage of salt to move from tubing to the beaker.

Percentage of water moving to tubing;

`{ \tt{ = 95\% - 85\%}} \\ = { \tt{10\%}}`

Percentage of salt moving from tubing to beaker

`{ \tt{ = 15\% - 5\%}} \\ { \tt{ = 10\%}}`