Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Most of us, especially those in the food or shipping industries, know that you can save a lot of weight by dehydrating food. What if you had 100 pounds of potatoes, and each potato was 99% water. If you dehydrated those potatoes just a little, to the point that they were 98% water, how much would they weigh?
They would weigh 50 pounds. Believe it or not.
Wikipedia gives us a couple of explanations for the Potato Paradox.
Method 1
One explanation begins by saying that initially the non-water weight is 1 pound, which is…
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