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A cell containing 5% salt is placed into a glass of water with 20% salt. Which direction will water flow, assuming salt is too big to pass through the cell membrane?

water will stay where it is

water will diffuse from outside to inside of cell

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Check my work?

A cell containing 5% salt is placed into a glass of water with 20% salt. Which direction will water flow, assuming salt is too big to pass through the cell membrane?

water will stay where it is

water will diffuse from outside to inside of cell<<

water will diffuse from inside to outside of cell

justjm · Answer

Hypotonic -> Hypertonic is direction of water in a natural water potential (psi).

So it will diffuse from inside to out because the cell is hypotonic and the environment is hypertonic.