businessinsider/craziest-paradoxes-in-history-2015-1?op=1 16 Paradoxes That Will Make Your Head Explode GUS LUBIN AND ANDY KIERSZ JAN. 16, 2015, 5:07 PM 100-gram potato is 99% water. If it dries to become 98% water, it will weigh only 50 grams. The key to the potato paradox is to closely look at the math behind the non-water content of the potato. Since the potato is 99% water, the dry components are 1% of its mass. The potato starts at 100 grams, so that means that it contains 1 gram of dry material. When the dried-out potato is 98% water, that 1 gram of non-water now needs to account for 2% of the potatos weight. 1 gram is 2% of 50 grams, so this must be the new weight of the potato.
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