A cucumber is placed in a concentrated salt solution.What is most likely to happen?
A)Water will flow from the solution to the cucumber.
B)No change will occur.
C)Salt will flow into the cucumber.
D)Salt will precipitate out.
E)Water will flow from the cucumber to the solution.

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When a cucumber is placed in a concentrated salt solution, osmosis occurs, where water moves from a region of lower solute concentration (inside the cucumber) to a region of higher solute concentration (the salt solution) to try to equalize the solute concentrations on both sides of the cucumber's cell membranes.

A Cucumber Is Placed in a Concentrated Salt Solution