Acell 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?

question options:

a: water will diffuse from inside to the outside of the cell

b: water will diffuse from outside to the inside of the cell

c: water will stay where it is

The correct answer is A water will diffuse from inside to outside of the cell

Explanation:

According to the given question a cell containing 5% salt solution is placed into a glass of water with 20% salt solution.That means the salt solution present in the glass is hypertonic to the salt solution present inside the cell.

   As the cell is kept or placed in a hypertonic solution water will diffuse from inside to the outside of the cell.