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Answer: Because they were placed in a hypertonic solution, there was a natural tendency for water to leave the gummy to create an isotonic solution. The greater amount of salt in the salt water solution would cause more water to leave the gummy. Therefore, the gummy would shrink more in a higher concentration of salt water

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The gummy bear shrinks after being soaked with salt water because the gummy bear loses water to the environment.

OSMOSIS:

  • Osmosis is the process whereby water moves from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration through a semipermeable membrane.

  • The salt water in this question represents a hypertonic solution that contains high salt conc. but low water concentration.

  • This means that if the gummy bear is placed in a salt water, water will move from the cells of the gummy bear (low concentration of salt) to its environment (high salt concentration) based on osmotic principle.

  • Therefore, gummy bear shrinks after being soaked with salt water because the gummy bear loses water to the environment.

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