CAN YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION? (page 4)

Gerard

Therefore, the total weight is now 50lbs. -funkydereck

I am very hesitant to argue about potatoes with an Irishman

So, what's the answer?

JosephMalik

Say BA,

You Googled that answer didn't you? I was going to do the same thing.

Joseph

BFD

BTW Mouthy, if the spuds is 99% water how the hell did I get so fat eatin em?
Cos you ate meat, gravy,peas,with them Then had a whacking great slice of Cake & Ice-cream to top it off

You are the smartest Granny ever! cooking icecream

BFD

Gerard

So, 100 Lbs potatoes -made up of mostly water- lost 1% of its water yet lost about HALF its weight? This makes no sense to me.

Anybody willing to explain it to a mathematically-challenged person? Thanks,

G

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Edited to add:

Nevermind. I just Googled the "potato math problem", its answer and explanation. Tricksy!!!!

http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/math/potatoanswer.htm

Gopher

"Addicted To Spuds"Potato skins, potato cakes
Hash browns, and instant flakes
Baked or boiled or french fried
There's no kind you haven't tried

You planned a trip to Idaho
Just to watch potatoes grow
I understand how you must feel
I can't deny they've got appeal

Whoah
You like them whether they are plain or they're stuffed, oh yeah
Better face the facts, it seems you can't get enough
You know, you're gonna have to face it
You're addicted to spuds

Your greasy hands, your salty lips
Looks like you found the chips
Your belly aches, your teeth grind
Some tator tots would blow your mind

And you don't mind if they're not cooked
You need your fix, I guess you're hooked
And late at night you always dream
Of bacon bits and sour cream

Whoah, you like them even if they're lumpy or tough, oh yeah
Whee, It's pretty obvoius to me you can't get enough
You know you're gonna have to face it
You're addicted to spuds

Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds

Ooh yeah

I'm givin' up, it'sjust no use
Another case of spud abuse
What can I say, what can I do
Potato bug has got me too, Wahoo

I used to hate them, now they're all that I eat, oh yeah
Whee, I've often seen then whipped, but they just can't be beat
Now I'm gonna have to face it
I'm addicted to spuds

Might as well face it, I'm addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to spuds

Might as well face it, I'm addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to spuds

SixofNine

Credit where credit is overdue:

Here, and here.

Question 49088
Submitted on 4/20/2004

Mr. Bates boutht 100 lbs. of potatoes that were 99% water. After the potatoes were left outdoors for a day, they were 98% water. What was the weight of the slightly dehydrated potatoes?

Solution 49088

Let the loss weight be x lb.
(99%)(100) - (98%)(100 - x) = x
(0.99)(100) - (0.98)(100 - x) = x
99 - (98 - 0.98x) = x
99 - 98 + 0.98x = x
1 + 0.98x = x
1 + 0.98x - 0.98x = x - 0.98x
1 = 0.02x
1 / 0.02 = 0.02x / 0.02
50 = x
100 - x = 100 - 50 = 50
The weight of the dehydrated potatoes was 50 lb.

DanTheMan

CAN YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTON?

Why is it that you can you spend tens, perhaps even hundreds of hours working such problems for various high school and college classes, to where you're pretty good at them and pull decent grades in the classes, and yet it only takes months, perhaps even weeks, to completely forget how to work them? LOL

SacrificialLoon

So if the sack of potatoes weigh 100 lbs and 99% of it is water then evaporation makes it 98% water?

If we take into account that the 100 lbs. of potatoes were placed on the 957th step in the great pyamid, and it was there for 2 days then we can clearly see that 1914 was an important date for potatoes everywhere when much evaporation took place. If you turn to your potato bible to 1st Russet chapter 7 verse 3 it reads "And lo the great whore of Dublin did mislead the masses for two times, and half a time.". So with this information we can wisely discern that the potatoes actually lost 2.5% of their mass in 1914! So the answer is 97.5 pounds.

Undecided

If I had the sack of potatoes it would be simple, just put it back on the scales. Who needs the math?

Ken P.

horrible life

Not that this has anything to do with the topic, but I prefer red potatos for potato salad. W

Finally Free, my husband LOVES potato salad. And you are right, red potatoes are better He buys alot of it in supermarket deli's around here, in small town USA. They are serving creamy potatoe salad now. Hardly a chunk in it. He acts like a kid in a candy store, if he can find chunky.

He found a gallon tub of yellow chunky salad, out of town. He bought an ice chest and ice, to haul it back in.

He had a midnight snack, and the next morning, I found it sitting out, on top of our stove. Half full. (Gas stove, with pilot light) It was HOT.

I thought about throwing it away, before he saw it, knowing it would break his heart. But I didn't. And it did break his heart. A week later, he is still talking about it.

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