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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 08:23:28 2020 No.11968449 View Reply Original Report

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox

This makes no fucking sense at all. The potatoes lost 1% of their weight, so it should be 99kg.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 08:31:17 No.11968463 Report

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>>11968449
Actually read the wiki you linked to. It explains why you're wrong, retard.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 08:35:56 No.11968473 Report

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>>11968463
real potatoes are more like 60% water, the paradox is invalid

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 08:51:41 No.11968499 Report

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>>11968473
indeed, for a water percentage of 79% (quoted from the wiki) you get a water loss of 4.5 kg, so the final weight is 95.5 kg

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 08:59:29 No.11968508 Report

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>>11968449
next time, boil the potato instead of your head

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 09:05:48 No.11968517 Report

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>>11968449
If its hard to conceptualize as stated, think of the converse:
>Potatoes are 1% solid, left out for a day, they become 2% solid.
That means the ratio of solid potato weight to total potato weight must have doubled, but because we know no more solid potato was added, we know that the weight of each potato must have been halved.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 09:43:20 No.11968574 Report

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Suppose the 1% solids weigh 90kg and the 99% water weigh 10kg, what now?

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 11:33:48 No.11968722 Report

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I'm having a hard time wrapping my dumb brain around this

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 11:53:15 No.11968748 Report

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>>11968449
>en.m.
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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 12:00:43 No.11968755 Report

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 12:07:35 No.11968766 Report

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>>11968473

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 12:08:36 No.11968770 Report

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>>11968473
these are mathematical potatoes

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 14:18:32 No.11968989 Report

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>>11968449
Potatoes are multidimensional plants. They anchor all of existence together. That's why Idaho is full of mormons.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 14:37:47 No.11969056 Report

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>>11968449

The key is in understanding the question is asking for a reduction in CONCENTRATION of potatoes to water FROM 99% TO 98%, NOT reduction in total weight from 99% to 98%.

This is how concentrations work.
To increase the concentration of salt to water from 99% to 98% I would have to put in twice as much salt.
To Decrease the concentration of salt in my water from 99% to 98% by boiling, I would have to boil off 50% of my water.
Get it?

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2020 14:43:15 No.11969081 Report

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>>11968449

This is a concentration problem by weight; not a comparison of weights of potato solids to water.

Treat it as a concentration:

If I have a pot of water with salt that is 99% water and 1% salt, and I boiled off the water until it was 2% salty, I would have to boil off half the water, But the ratio of salt to water by weight would be 98% water and 2% salt.

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