Question

Dry apricots are left for sometime in pure water and later transferred to sugar solation

Answer 1

in the first case the apricots have less water content thus the apricot cells take up the water and buldge in size . here the water acts as hypotonic solution. but in second case the apricot is consist of  more water than sugar solution  .now the apricot shrinks and water increases outside  . this process is called osmosis movement of water high to low concentration region . the sugar solution acts as hypertonic solution