Question

two beakers A and B contain plain water and concentrated sugar solution respectively. equal number of raisins are placed in both the beakers for few hours and then taken out. i) explain the reason for the differences in the physical appearance of raisins which were taken out from the beakers. ii)on the basis of the above observations , categories the two solutions that are hypertonic and hypotonic.

Answer 1

in the first container the raisins will be swollen and in second container the raisins will shrunken this is due to influx and efflux of water respectively
the first solution is hypotonic and second is hypertonic