I'll clarify. Good lord how is this considered a "paradox". Before drying: .99(100 kg) + 1 kg(of non water stuff) = 100 kg. So 99 kg + 1 kg = 100 kg. Duh. Now simply apply this after drying them out: .98(Total Weight AFTER) + 1 kg (of non water stuff, that doesn't dehydrate) = Total Weight AFTER Now solve for Total Weight AFTER, or TWA. It's so simple it's stupid, yet there's videos all over youtube about it as this great paradox. Guys, it's 9th grade algebra!
Hey Eddie great lessons, although this one is difficult to grasp. At the start you say 1% = 1kg, and the water content is 99%, it drops to 98% ,.By subtracting 1% from 99 ( 99-0.99) = 98.01. Therefore 98.01 + 1 kg of solids =99.01 kg. The potatoes total weight is now 99.01, which seems right, as a 1% change is not much. Another way to look at it is if you had a big bucket of water (100 L =100kgs) and you lose 1% to evaporation, there's going to be 99L left which is 99 kg. The calculation in class....the 1% loss = 50kg doesn't seem right.
It’s because of the “solid”, since the water became 98% of the potato and so, solid became 2% 2%=1kg also, you are not subtracting 1% from 99, you are subtracting 1% from 99%. The bucket example is not similar to this example as it is a 100% water
Hey, I honestly don't know, but I have a question, and I don't want to be rude even if it looks like but, why don't you learn English? It's not my mother language (it's my third) and I just was wondering what's the difficulty some people approach when are actually trying too?
@@bess00 It's time consuming. It's difficult. And a lot of times it's not worth it. The dude above is arabic obviously. He probably lives somewhere in Arabia or near-about and has no significant use of learning English. It's also much harder for him as it's a very very different language. For example, French, Spanish and English would be close languages. Much easier to transition. Imagine, him learning English is equivalent to you learning Cantonese. It's not like a French guy learning English. It's much more difficult.
Why is it that most of Eddie 's video seems incomplete I mean it's too interesting to be this short just 7-8 mins, it's like there's a part 2 so I naturally press the next button but then it's not the same topic anymore.When I wanna go deeper into things and reach the god damn roots of the topic, it just ends just like that Why why 🤷♀️🤷
Don’t think of it as 1% less water, think of it as twice as much solid stuff. If there is twice as much solid stuff, there must be half the amount of water. Therefore the weight is halved.
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Dear Eddie, you made this problem way more complicated than it is !
Simply write it out algebraically, like this:
.98(Total Weight) + 1kg = Total Weight
=>.02(Total Weight) = 1kg
Therefore, Total Weight = 50kg.
Easy, yet surprising.
I'll clarify. Good lord how is this considered a "paradox". Before drying:
.99(100 kg) + 1 kg(of non water stuff) = 100 kg.
So 99 kg + 1 kg = 100 kg. Duh.
Now simply apply this after drying them out:
.98(Total Weight AFTER) + 1 kg (of non water stuff, that doesn't dehydrate) = Total Weight AFTER
Now solve for Total Weight AFTER, or TWA. It's so simple it's stupid, yet there's videos all over youtube about it as this great paradox. Guys, it's 9th grade algebra!
Hey Eddie great lessons, although this one is difficult to grasp. At the start you say 1% = 1kg, and the water content is 99%, it drops to 98% ,.By subtracting 1% from 99 ( 99-0.99) = 98.01. Therefore 98.01 + 1 kg of solids =99.01 kg. The potatoes total weight is now 99.01, which seems right, as a 1% change is not much. Another way to look at it is if you had a big bucket of water (100 L =100kgs) and you lose 1% to evaporation, there's going to be 99L left which is 99 kg. The calculation in class....the 1% loss = 50kg doesn't seem right.
It’s because of the “solid”, since the water became 98% of the potato and so, solid became 2% 2%=1kg also, you are not subtracting 1% from 99, you are subtracting 1% from 99%. The bucket example is not similar to this example as it is a 100% water
Might help if you see it on the perspective of the 1% where it doubles instead of the 99% - 1%
Has anyone in the class watched vsauce's potato paradox video and new the answer?
where's part 2?
Put the link to the next video in a series in the video description please.
Is it possible to add an Arabic translation
Hey, I honestly don't know, but I have a question, and I don't want to be rude even if it looks like but, why don't you learn English? It's not my mother language (it's my third) and I just was wondering what's the difficulty some people approach when are actually trying too?
@@bess00 It's time consuming. It's difficult. And a lot of times it's not worth it.
The dude above is arabic obviously. He probably lives somewhere in Arabia or near-about and has no significant use of learning English. It's also much harder for him as it's a very very different language.
For example, French, Spanish and English would be close languages. Much easier to transition.
Imagine, him learning English is equivalent to you learning Cantonese.
It's not like a French guy learning English. It's much more difficult.
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Why is it that most of Eddie 's video seems incomplete
I mean it's too interesting to be this short just 7-8 mins, it's like there's a part 2 so I naturally press the next button but then it's not the same topic anymore.When I wanna go deeper into things and reach the god damn roots of the topic, it just ends just like that
Why why 🤷♀️🤷
In the title it literally says "1 of 2"
So yes there is a part 2
Part 2 just came out! ruclips.net/video/OGiR-HVuRxc/видео.html
I'm very confused
Why? Did you try solving it yourself?
Don’t think of it as 1% less water, think of it as twice as much solid stuff. If there is twice as much solid stuff, there must be half the amount of water. Therefore the weight is halved.
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