Question

100g of soil is placed on a newspaper and dried for 2 hours. After drying, weight of soil becomes 90g. Calculate the percentage of moisture content in soil.

Answer 1

If wet soil is 100g and dried is 90g then the moisture content would be 10%

100g=100%

90g=90%

So difference is 10g=10%

Answer 2

Answer:

original mass of soil-100g

mass of dried soil -90g

moisture bod soil __ 100-90g

__ 10g

divide 100&90

the answer is 1 percent